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020			_a9781487512248 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aPR173 _b.E657 2018
050	0	4	_aPR255
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZweck, Jordan, _d1981- _e1
245	1	0	_aEpistolary acts : _bAnglo-Saxon letters and early English media / _cJordan Zweck.
260			_aToronto ; _aBuffalo ; _aLondon : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource (223 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aToronto Anglo-Saxon series
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: epistolary acts and The Husband's Message -- _tReconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis : form, vocabulary, and immediacy -- _tSpreading the word : the Sunday letter, mass communication, and the self-replicating document -- _tMessengers, materiality, and transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt -- _tBodies of record : witnessing, memory, and erasure in Ælfric's Life of St Basil and the anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers -- _tEpilogue: epistolary afterlives.
520	0		_a"As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls "epistolary acts," the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies."-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aEnglish literature _yOld English, ca. 450-1100 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLetter writing _zEngland _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aLetters in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell