Jane Griffiths

Diverting Authorities

Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print

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Produktbeschreibung

Diverting Authorities examines literary experimentation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It looks at marginal annotations or 'glosses' provided by authors in a wide range of texts and argues that they provide important evidence for evolving ideas of authorship and literary authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780199654512
• ISBN-10: 0199654514
• Artikelnr.: 47868569

Autorenporträt

Jane Griffiths is Tutor and Fellow in English at Wadham College, Oxford. Her first monograph, John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak, was published by OUP in 2006, and her most recent collection of poetry is Terrestrial Variations (Bloodaxe, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Material Processes: The Glossing of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and
Fall of Princes
* 2: Authors, Translators and Commentators: Glossing Practices in
Bodleian MS Fairfax 16
* 3: Exhortations to the Reader: The Double Glossing of Douglas's
Eneados
* 4: Glossing the Spoken Word: Erasmus's Moriae Encomium and Thomas
Chaloner's Praise of Folie
* 5: 'A Broil of Voices': The Printed Word in Baldwin's Beware the Cat
and Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence
* 6: 'Masking naked in a net': George Gascoigne and Sir John Harington
* 7: 'Playing the Dolt in Print': The Extemporary Glossing of Nashe's
Pierce Penilesse
* Afterword