Heyman Center Common Room
ICLS
LAIC and Jazz Studies
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A talk by Prof. Simone Pinet (Spanish Studies, Cornell University). Stathis Gourgouris will act as respondent.
Beyond questions of the status of orality, tradition, and reception that are part of the study of medieval literatures in general, produced in predominantly oral and aural cultures, this talk will focus on how medieval literatures make of sound an integral component as rhetorical device, as plot, and as interpretive framework. Centered on the garden, a literary commonplace that gathers references and meanings, I will pay attention to two medieval Iberian texts that explore the garden as a place for the production of sound, teasing out the allusions, hints, and operations that these texts invite and indeed, demand from their audiences, proposing the experience of medieval literature as one of attunement and engaged listening.
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