Participatory reading in late-medieval England / Heather Blatt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Manchester medieval literature and culture | Manchester medieval literature and culture | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526118004
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 820.9/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PR255 .B538 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media -- Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book -- Nonlinear reading: The Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI' -- Reading architecturally: The wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral -- Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy -- Conclusion: Nonreading in late-medieval England.
Summary: This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to -- and contest -- writers' burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.

Introduction: Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media -- Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book -- Nonlinear reading: The Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI' -- Reading architecturally: The wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral -- Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy -- Conclusion: Nonreading in late-medieval England.

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This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to -- and contest -- writers' burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.

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