Sarah Finley

Hearing Voices (eBook, PDF)

Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Produktbeschreibung

Hearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51¿95). A voracious autodidact, Sor Juana engaged with early modern music culture in a way that resonates deeply in her writing. Despite the privileging of harmony within Sor Juanäs work, however, links between the poet¿s musical inheritance and subjects such as acoustics, cognition, writing, and visual art have remained unexplored. These lacunae have marginalized nonmusical aurality and contributed to the persistence of both ocularcentrism and a corresponding visual dominance in scholarship on Sor Juanäand indeed in early modern cultural production in general. As in many areas of her work, Sor Juanäs engagement with acoustical themes restructures gendered discourses and transposes them to a feminine key. Hearing Voices focuses on these aural conceits in highlighting the importance of sound and¿in most cases¿its relationship with gender in Sor Juanäs work and early modern culture. Sarah Finley explores attitudes toward women¿s voices and music making; intersections of music, rhetoric, and painting; aurality in Baroque visual art; sound and ritual; and the connections between optics and acoustics. Finley demonstrates how Sor Juanäs striking aurality challenges ocularcentric interpretations and problematizes paradigms that pin vision to logos, writing, and other empirical models that traditionally favor men¿s voices. Sound becomes a vehicle for women¿s agency and responds to anxiety about the female voice, particularly in early modern convent culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496212795
• Artikelnr.: 55973169

Autorenporträt

Sarah Finley is an assistant professor of Spanish at Christopher Newport University.   

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Prelude
1. Harmony: Order and Authority in Occasional Poems
2. Resonance: Intersections of Music and Other Arts
3. Sound: Female Auralities in the Villancicos
4. Echo: Repercussions of Feminine Intellect
5. Silence: Transgressions and Feminine Revoicings
6. Coda: Re-sounding Voices
Notes
Bibliography
Index