World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Lears, Adin E.

Title
World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England.

Published
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Physical Description
xv, 248 pp.

Description
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Language and Word Studies