Participatory reading in late-medieval England
Title | Participatory reading in late-medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Blatt |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526118017 |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to – and contest – writers’ burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Title | Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Coleman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521673518 |
This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
Title | Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Barr |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2001-12-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191540862 |
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation
Title | The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Saetveit Miles |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843845342 |
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Tropologies
Title | Tropologies PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan McDermott |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0268087091 |
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative” demands that words be turned into works—books as well as deeds. Beginning with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, then treating monuments of exegesis such as the Glossa ordinaria and Nicholas of Lyra, as well as theorists including Thomas Aquinas, Erasmus, Martin Luther, and others, Tropologies reveals the unwritten history of a major hermeneutical theory and inventive practice. Late medieval and early Reformation writers adapted tropological theory to invent new biblical poetry and drama that would invite readers to participate in salvation history by inventing their own new works. Tropologies reinterprets a wide range of medieval and early modern texts and performances—including the Patience-Poet, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, the York and Coventry cycle plays, and the literary circles of the reformist King Edward VI—to argue that “tropological invention” provided a robust alternative to rhetorical theories of literary production. In this groundbreaking revision of literary history, the Bible and biblical hermeneutics, commonly understood as sources of tumultuous discord, turn out to provide principles of continuity and mutuality across the Reformation’s temporal and confessional rifts. Each chapter pursues an argument about poetic and dramatic form, linking questions of style and aesthetics to exegetical theory and theology. Because Tropologies attends to the flux of exegetical theory and practice across a watershed period of intellectual history, it is able to register subtle shifts in literary production, fine-tuning our sense of how literature and religion mutually and dynamically informed and reformed each other.
Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Title | Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Catherine Flannery |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 215 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9781137428639 |
"Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection brings together essays on the history of the book, literary depictions of readers and reading, and medieval and modern literary theory in order to demonstrate how space and spatial concerns shaped reading in later medieval England"--
Writing Aloud
Title | Writing Aloud PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy M. Bradbury |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780252024030 |
In this study, Nancy Bradbury presents a spectrum of medieval English romances that extends from the fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition to a writerly work that proclaims its own place in the European tradition of canonical poetry. By focusing on works composed at the interface of oral and literary tradition, Bradbury tracks the movement of folkloric patterns from the shared culture of oral storytelling to the realm of elite literature.