Participatory reading in late-medieval England

• Tác giả: Heather Blatt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1526117991
• ISBN-13: 978-1526118004
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.9 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (vii, 261 pages.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244443
• Chủ đề: 1. English literature--History and criticism--Middle English, 1100-1500; 2. Literature and society--History--16th century--England; 3. Literature and society--History--To 1500--England; 4. Reading--16th century--England; 5. Reading--To 1500--England

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.

Tóm tắt

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.