Heather Blatt

Participatory reading in late-medieval England (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526118011
• Artikelnr.: 55005991

Autorenporträt

Heather Blatt is Associate Professor of English Literature at Florida International University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: participatory reading in late-medieval England Part I:
Participatory discourse 1 Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus
and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book 2 Nonlinear reading: the Orcherd
of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes Part II:
Evoking participation 3 Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for
the coronation banquet of Henry VI' 4 Reading architecturally: the wall
texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St. Paul's
Cathedral 5 Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor
Hull's Commentary on the Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy
Conclusion: nonreading in late-medieval England Index