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...
-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...
