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Klement, Leah; Saltzman, Benjamin A.
Global intellectual history (Abingdon, England), 07/2023, Letnik: ahead-of-print, Številka: ahead-of-printJournal Article
Modern discourses surrounding the aesthetic representation of violence and the ethics of witnessing have often focused on visual perception. Yet, the intrusive and percussive nature of sound's transmission has linked it intimately with the perception of violence in both medieval and modern representations. This article presents two case studies from medieval literature in which issues of sensation consistently mediate aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the violence that the texts contain. This emphasis on sensation foregrounds the role of the body in observing and witnessing representations of violence.
