Blatt Participatory reading in late-medieval England

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1800-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blatt, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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