Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Title | Scribal Correction and Literary Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Wakelin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316062120 |
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Title | Scribal Correction and Literary Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Wakelin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | England |
ISBN | 9781316073933 |
"This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English"--
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Title | Scribal Correction and Literary Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Wakelin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014-11-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107076226 |
An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Chaucer's Scribes
Title | Chaucer's Scribes PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Warner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2018-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108426271 |
Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.
Middle English Texts in Transition
Title | Middle English Texts in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Horobin |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1903153530 |
Chaucer, Gower and Langland -- Lyrics and romances -- Devotional writings -- Owners and users of medieval books -- A tribute to Professor Takamiya
The Poetic Voices of John Gower
Title | The Poetic Voices of John Gower PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew W. Irvin |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1843843390 |
Gower's use of the persona, the figure of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this book. While it traces the development of Gower's voice through his major works, it concentrates on the dialogue of Amans and Genius in the Confessio Amantis. It argues that Gower negotiates problems of politics and problems of love by means of an analogy between political ethics and the rules of fin amour; Amans and Genius are both drawn from and occupied with amatory and ethical traditions, and their discourse produces a series of attempts to find a coherent and rational union of lover and ruler. The volume also argues that Gower's goal is poetic as well as political: through the personae, Gower's readers experience the pains and pleasures of erotic and social love. Gower's personae voice potential responses to exemplary experience, prompting readers to feel and to judge, and moving them to become better lovers and better rulers. Gower's analogy between fin amour and politics brings the affects of the lover to the action of government, and suggests for both love and rule the moderation that brings peace and joy. Matthew W. Irvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program at Sewanee.
Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts
Title | Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Matti Peikola |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Book design |
ISBN | 9782503574646 |
The chapters in this volume investigate how visual and material features of early English books, documents, and other artefacts support - or potentially contradict - the linguistic features in communicating the message. In addition to investigating how such communication varies between different media and genres, our contributors propose novel methods for analysing these features, including new digital applications. They map the use of visual and material features - such as layout design or choice of script/typeface - against linguistic features - such as code-switching, lexical variation, or textual labels - to consider how these choices reflect the communicative purposes of the text, for example guiding readers to navigate the text in a certain way.