The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor.

From: Yearbook of English Studies | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv +386 pp. $21.00; 16.75 [pounds sterling] (paperbound).

When Bruce R. Smith's book attends to the first part of its title, it is original, ambitious, learned, informative, stimulating, and clearly written. When it attends to the `O-Factor', it can be suggestive, but also pretentious and cloudy. Smith begins with the phoneme [o:], and its many implications as a physical act, a sensory experience, and an act of communication. But he ...

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