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1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) |
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Manchester medieval literature and culture |
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Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media -- Part I. Partcipatory discourse -- 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 -- Part II. Evoking participation -- 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 temporarily : 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 explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodiment are practices intimately familiar to readers of Wikipedia, players of video games and users of multi-touch mobile devices. But far from being unique to digital media, they have clear analogues in the pre-modern era. Participatory reading in late-medieval England traces how the affinities between old and new media can reveal fresh insights not only about the digital, but also about the long history of media forms and practices. It thus casts new light on the literary practices of a period pre- and post-print to demonstrate how participatory reading vitally contributed to and shaped these negotiations of fragile authority |
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Literature |
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Reading |
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Readers |
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Digital media |
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Textuality |
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Reading history |
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Chaucer |
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Lydgate |
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Bodies or embodiment |
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Time |
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Movement or mobility |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index |
| Notes |
Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2017: Front list Collection 100908 |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Print version record |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Reading -- England -- To 1500
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Reading -- England -- 16th century
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Literary studies: classical, early and medieval.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Literature and society
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Reading
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England
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technical reports.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Technical reports.
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Rapports techniques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526118004 |
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1526118009 |
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9781526117991 |
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1526117991 |
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9781526118011 |
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1526118017 |
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