The Unbridled Tongue

Butterworth, Emily

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“…66 Butterworth and Hammond examine how evocations of bruit in literary sources often indicate the publication of information meant to be secret or private. 67 Noise is to be feared because it carries the threat of shame: 'Public voice makes itself heard in the clamour of an ancient shaming practice. [.…”

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“…As both jury and judge, the clamouring crowd also deliver punishment in the form of public humiliation.' 68 In these texts, Viau inverts that truism, adopting a strategy of self-publicization to counter shameful and false bruit about him. 69 The poems evoke a loud battle between competing waves of noise, trumpeting the poet's Fama drown out the faux bruit circulated by his enemies.…”

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Théophile de Viau and the Poetics of Noise Control under Louis XIII

Welch

2022

French Studies

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This essay analyses sonic imagery in Théophile de Viau’s writings about his exile and trial as a commentary on the power of rumour and reputation. Inspired by the commonplace figure of bruit in the sense of renown, gossip, or common discourse, Viau effectively uses the vocabulary of sound, used in both literal and metaphorical dimensions, to sketch out the power dynamics and information politics that led to his condemnation. In several texts written and published between 1620 and his death in 1626, Viau opposes the sound of power to the noise of dissent, the quiet of peace to the din of war, and the music of court to the desolate silence of exile. While evoking the sensuous experience of the poet, the acoustic dimension of these works also describes the flow of information through society and expresses the frustration of an individual cut off from communication circuits. In this way, Viau’s writing displays the critical possibilities of poetic metaphor in a socio-historical context.

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Section: The ´ Ophile De Viau and The Poetics Of Noise Control Under ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The ´ Ophile De Viau and The Poetics Of Noise Control Under ...mentioning

confidence: 99%