Author, Reader, Book

Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Partridge, Stephen; Kwakkel, Erik

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780802099341
• ISBN-10: 0802099343
• Artikelnr.: 32737859

Autorenporträt

Edited by Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Author, Reader, Book and Medieval Authorship in Theory and
Practice by Stephen Partridge
1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture
by Alastair Minnis (Yale University)
2. Wit, laughter and authority in Walter Map’s De nugis curialium
(Courtiers’ trifles) by Sebastian Coxon (University College London)
3. Late-Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on
Single-Author Manuscripts by Erik Kwakkel
4. The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian
Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context by Anita Obermeier
(University of New Mexico)
5. ‘The Makere of this Boke’: Chaucer’s ‘Retraction’ and the Author as
Scribe and Compiler by Stephen Partridge
6. Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her
Readers by Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia)
7. Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing After the
Constitutions by Kirsty Campbell (Bishop's University)
8. Master Henryson and Father Aesop by Ian Higgins (University of
Victoria)
9. Erasmus’ Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre by Mark Vessey
(University of British Columbia)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations