Scribal Correction and Literary Craft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scribal Correction and Literary Craft write by Daniel Wakelin. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Scribal Correction and Literary Craft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scribal Correction and Literary Craft write by Daniel Wakelin. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Scribal Correction and Literary Craft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scribal Correction and Literary Craft write by Daniel Wakelin. This book was released on 2014. Scribal Correction and Literary Craft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English"--
Chaucer's Scribes
Chaucer's Scribes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer's Scribes write by Lawrence Warner. This book was released on 2018-09-13. Chaucer's Scribes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.
The History of the Book in the Middle East
The History of the Book in the Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the Book in the Middle East write by Geoffrey Roper. This book was released on 2017-03-02. The History of the Book in the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of printing - long before Gutenberg - and the eventual, belated acceptance of the printed book and the development of print culture are explored in further groups of papers. Cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors are all considered throughout the volume. Although the articles reflect the predominance in the area of Muslim books - Arabic, Persian and Turkish - the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions are also discussed. The editor’s introduction provides a survey of the field from the origins of writing to the modern literary and intellectual revivals.
