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Author, reader, book medieval authorship in theory and practice / edited by Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin Original language: French Publication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations, digital fileContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442665743
  • 1442665742
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN671
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / Stephen Partridge -- 1 The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture / Alastair Minnis -- 2 Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) / Sebastian Coxon -- 3 Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts / Erik Kwakkel -- 4 The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context / Anita Obermeier -- 5 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler / Stephen Partridge -- 6 Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers / Deborah McGrady -- 7 Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions / Kirsty Campbell -- 8 Master Henryson and Father Aesop / Iain Macleod Higgins -- 9 Erasmus's Lucubrationes : Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre / Mark Vessey.
Summary: Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / Stephen Partridge -- 1 The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture / Alastair Minnis -- 2 Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) / Sebastian Coxon -- 3 Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts / Erik Kwakkel -- 4 The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context / Anita Obermeier -- 5 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler / Stephen Partridge -- 6 Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers / Deborah McGrady -- 7 Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions / Kirsty Campbell -- 8 Master Henryson and Father Aesop / Iain Macleod Higgins -- 9 Erasmus's Lucubrationes : Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre / Mark Vessey.

Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays 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.

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Text chiefly in English. Includes text in Latin. Includes some text in French followed by the translation in English.

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