UID:
almahu_9948635338002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) :
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digital file(s).
Ausgabe:
Open Access Edition.
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526118004
Serie:
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Inhalt:
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〈i〉 〈/i〉to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, 〈i〉Participatory reading 〈/i〉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.
Inhalt:
"Late-medieval England witnessed a remarkable rise in the prominence of poetry and the sophistication of the English vernacular, to which both writers and readers contributed in fundamental ways. But while the transition of the medieval writer into the modern author, with a modern understanding of authority and the ownership of a text, has been extensively studied, the crucial role of the reader has been overlooked.Tracing affinities between digital and medieval media, this book explores how participation helped to define reading practices and shape relations between writers and readers from the late fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries. It draws on a wide variety of works – from Chaucer to banqueting poems and wall-texts – to demonstrate how medieval writers and readers engaged with practices familiar in digital media today. This includes such apparently modern ideas as crowd-sourced editing, nonlinear apprehension, mobility, temporality and forensic materiality. Writers turned to these practices in order to control readers’ engagement in ways that would benefit their reputations and encourage the transmission and interpretation of their texts. Readers, meanwhile, pursued their own agendas, which often conflicted with or simply ignored writers’ intentions.Shedding light on a previously unexplored area, 〈i〉Participatory reading in late-medieval England 〈/i〉will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval literature and the history of the book, as well as those interested in the long history of media studies." -- Back cover.
Anmerkung:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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Introduction: participatory reading in late-medieval England -- 〈b〉Part I: Participatory discourse〈/b〉 -- 1. Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer’s 〈i〉Troilus and Criseyde〈/i〉 and John Lydgate’s〈i〉 Troy Book〈/i〉 -- 2. Nonlinear reading: the 〈i〉Orcherd of Syon〈/i〉, 〈i〉Titus and Vespasian〈/i〉, and Lydgate’s 〈i〉Siege of Thebes〈/i〉 --〈b〉Part II: Evoking participation〈/b〉 -- 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 〈i〉Poulys Daunce 〈/i〉of St. Paul’s Cathedral -- 5. Reading temporally: 〈i〉Thomas of Erceldoune’s prophecy〈/i〉,〈i〉 〈/i〉Eleanor Hull’s 〈i〉Commentary on the Psalms〈/i〉, and Thomas Norton’s 〈i〉Ordinal of alchemy〈/i〉 -- Conclusion: nonreading in late-medieval England -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Blatt, Heather. Participatory reading in late-medieval England, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2018, ISBN 9781526117991
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.7765/9781526118004
URL:
https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526118004/9781526118004.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526118004
URL:
https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526118004/9781526118004.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526118004
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