Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England (eBook)

Mary C. Flannery (Autor)

C. Griffin (Herausgeber)

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2016
XXIV, 215 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-42862-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Essayists in this collection break down the vital relationship between reading and space in medieval culture. A variety of approaches are employed to discuss the topic including literary analysis and contemporary film and architectural theory, in turn, complicating the notion of the stable, fixed text and reader.

Tamara Atkin, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Heather Blatt, Florida International University, USA Julia Boffey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Stephanie Downes, University of Melbourne, Australia A. S. G. Edwards, University of Kent, UK Ryan Perry , University of Kent, UK Daniel Sawyer, University of Oxford, UK Lawrence Tuck, University of Kent, UK Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford, UK Katie L. Walter, University of Sussex, UK

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We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces provided opportunities for a wide range of interactions with and contributions to the texts being read. Drawing on a rich variety of material, this collection of essays demonstrates that the spaces in which reading took place (or in which reading could take place) in later medieval England directly influenced how and why reading happened.

Autor

Mary C. Flannery is a Maître Assistante of English literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame.Carrie Griffin is a lecturer in early modern English literature in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Research Associate of English at the University of Bristol, UK. She published an edition of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy with Middle English Texts/Winter in 2013.

Inhalt

Introduction; Mary C. Flannery and Carrie Griffin1. "Thys ys my boke": Imagining the Owner in the Book; Daniel Wakelin2. Reading John Walton's Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; A. S. G. Edwards3. Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study; Julia Boffey4. Not For Profit: 'Amateur' Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England; Stephanie Downes5. Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays; Tamara Atkin6. Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers' Movement in Books; Daniel Sawyer7. Reading Without Books; Katie L. Walter8. "[W]heþyr þu redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth þe": Margery Kempe and the Locations for Middle English Devotional Reading and Hearing; Ryan Perry and Lawrence Tuck9. Privy Reading; Mary C. Flannery10. Mapping the Readable Household; Heather Blatt

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The New Middle Ages
• Reihe/Serie: The New Middle Ages
• Zusatzinfo: XXIV, 215 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Antiquity • Cultural Theory • Culture • Drama • England • Film • History • History of Literature • Literary Theory • Literature • Medieval Literature • Middle Ages • Poetry • Social Science • space
• ISBN-10: 1-137-42862-7 / 1137428627
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-42862-2 / 9781137428622