Sound and Hearing in Middle English Literature.

Author / Editor
Pierce, Ingrid.

Title
Sound and Hearing in Middle English Literature.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. Purdue University, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A79.10. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI10809958/; accessed August 19, 2025.

Description
Item not seen. From the abstract: "My dissertation argues that numerous fourteenth-century texts connect listening with ethics in a phenomenon I call “auditory poetics.” I analyze human agency surrounding the creation and reception of sound in medieval writing. . . . The texts analyzed in my dissertation [include] Chaucer’s" HF and PF.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
House of Fame
Paarliament of Fowls