Disability, Music, and Chaucer’s Advental Bodies.
- Author / Editor
- Bude, Tekla.
Disability, Music, and Chaucer’s Advental Bodies.
- Published
- Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), pp. 146-68.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer "experiments with the body-disabling power of music as a site of poetic potential," tallying how, in CT, "musical performance nearly always causes narrative tension" and music "prosthetizes disability"--"advental" insofar as it is "promised but always in a state of deferral." Examines how "sonic bodies inhabit crip asynchronies for purposes of poesis" in the "body of Echo" in FranT, the "lyric I" in For, BD as a poem, and Troilus's body in TC.
- Alternative Title
- Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Franklin and His Tale
Book of the Duchess
Fortune
Troilus and Criseyde