Author, Reader, Book : : Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice /

Author, Reader, Book : : Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / / ed. by Stephen Partridge, Erik Kwakkel.

The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent. Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationshi...

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MitwirkendeR:
Campbell, Kirsty,
Coxon, Sebastian,
Higgins, Iain Macleod,
Kwakkel, Erik,
McGrady, Deborah,
Minnis, Alastair,
Obermeier, Anita,
Partridge, Stephen,
Vessey, Mark,
HerausgeberIn:
Kwakkel, Erik,
Partridge, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2012
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
  • 1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture
  • 2. Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles)
  • 3. Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts
  • 4. The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context
  • 5. 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler
  • 6. Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers
  • 7. Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions
  • 8. Master Henryson and Father Aesop
  • 9. Erasmus's Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index
  • Index of Manuscripts

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