Wynkyn de Worde and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Author: William F. Hutmacher
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-11
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9004485457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William F. Hutmacher
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-11
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9004485457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780802025920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.
Author: Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-11-30
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0191514659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the century after the arrival of printing in England. Her study is an important new contribution to the emerging 'sociology of the text' in English literary and historical studies. At the centre of this study is a familiar question: what is an author? The idea of the vernacular writer was already contested and unstable in medieval England; Gillespie demonstrates that in the late Middle Ages it was also a way for book producers and readers to mediate the risks - commercial, political, religious, and imaginative - involved in the publication of literary texts. Gillespie's discussion focuses on the changes associated with the shift to print, scribal precedents for these changes, and contemporary understanding of them. The treatment of texts associated with Chaucer and Lydgate is an index to the sometimes flexible, sometimes resistant responses of book printers, copyists, decorators, distributors, patrons, censors, owners, and readers to a gradual but profoundly influential bibliographical transition. The research is conducted across somewhat intractable boundaries. Gillespie writes about medieval and modern history; about manuscript and print; about canonical and marginal authors; about literary works and books as objects. In the process, she finds new meanings for some medieval vernacular texts and a new place for some old books in a history of English culture.
Author: Takako Kato
Publisher: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revisiting the fundamental texts of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, the Winchester manuscript and William Caxton’s printed edition, and investigating what happened in Caxton’s workshop are the best ways of discovering what Malory intended to write. This study investigates the irregular use of paraphs and the missing chapter-divisions in Caxton’s Morte, and reveals frequent alterations to it in order to fit his text on the page. It identifies the points at which alterations are most likely to have been made, and suggests that Caxton may have consulted the Winchester manuscript while he was preparing his edition, regularly with regard to textual divisions.
Author: Colin Partridge
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-04
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9004483187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vincent Dimarco
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9004490760
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