Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature - Hardcover
by Julie Singer
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838014ISBN-10:226838013UPC:9780226838014Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCXX2WWFWD
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events, including What is a person? Is speech fundamental to our humanity? And what does it mean, or what does it matter,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838014ISBN-10:226838013UPC:9780226838014Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCXX2WWFWD
Julie Singer is professor of French at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of two books, including Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France: Machines, Madness, Metaphor.
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