Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Fart: Noise in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Travis, Peter W.
Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Fart: Noise in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 16 (2004): 323-48
- Description
- In light of medieval commentary on sound, the fart at the end of SumT allows a wide range of "physical, political, social, clerical, and intellectual" reverberations, particularly ones associated with the Peasants' Uprising of 1381. Travis also comments on the hermeneutic range of the references to sound in HF, the debate in PF, and the chase scene in NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.