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Auteur(s) : Griffiths, Jane (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Diverting authorities [Texte imprimé] : experimental glossing practices in manuscript and print / Jane Griffiths
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI, 239 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-234) and index. - Includes bibliographical
references and index. - Bibliogr. p. 211-234, index
Text in English.
This book examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts
by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and
Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors
to reflect on the process of shaping a text, and with the emergence of the gloss as
a self-consciously literary form. One of the main questions it addresses is to what
extent the advent of print affects glossing practices. To this end, it traces the
transmission of a number of glossed texts in both manuscript and print, but also examines
glossing that is integral to texts written with print production in mind. With the
latter, it focuses particularly on a little-remarked but surprisingly common category
of gloss: glossing that is ostentatiously playful, diverting rather than directing
its readers. Setting this in the context of emerging print conventions and concerns
about the stability of print, Jane Griffiths argues that -- like self-glossing in
manuscript -- such diverting glosses shape as well as reflect contemporary ideas of
authorship and authority, and are thus genuinely experimental. The book reads across
medieval-renaissance and manuscript-print boundaries in order to trace the emergence
of the gloss as a genre and the way in which theories of authorship are affected by
the material processes of writing and transmission
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 15e siècle
Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle
Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle
Manuscrits anglais
Gloses
Indice(s) Dewey :
002.09 (23e éd.) = Livre - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199654512. - ISBN 0199654514 (rel)
EAN 9780199654512
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44320532z
Notice n° :
FRBNF44320532
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