Following Echo.
- Author / Editor
- Neufeld, Christine M.
Following Echo.
- Published
- Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 148-79.
- Description
- Theorizes the classical figure of Echo as a figure to "think with" in exploring "female vocality" and the topos of the "Philosopher and the Shrew" in WBPT and ClT (especially the Envoy), focusing on issues of deafness, gendered gossip, listening, and response.
- Alternative Title
- Avid Ears: Medieval Gossips, Sound, and the Art of Listening
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale