The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and material approaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and reception across time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and...
The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially co...
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Aelfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive over...
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question...
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of ...
Elaine (Professor of English, Stanford University) Treharne
This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion,...
This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including Engl...
-Distortion- of any kind, including the textual, is nearly always understood as negative: it can be defined as perversion, unnoticed alteration, impairment, caricature, twisting, corruption, misrepresentation, deviation. It might be said to create a form of the original (factual, true, authentic, real) that is not transubstantive as such, but warped, misshapen, skewed, shrunken, amplified, or simulated. In textual studies, one might argue, in fact, that all transmission is distorted - either through mediation, appropriation, colonisation, digitisation, or through misunderstanding, lack of...
-Distortion- of any kind, including the textual, is nearly always understood as negative: it can be defined as perversion, unnoticed alteration, impai...
