Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802099343 ISBN 13: 9780802099341

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent. Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books.
The broad chronological range within this volume reveals the persistence of literary concerns that remain consistent through different periods, languages, and cultural contexts. Theoretical reflections, case studies from a wide variety of languages, examinations of devotional literature from figures such as Bishop Reginald Pecock, and analyses of works that are more secular in focus, including some by Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, come together in this volume to transcend linguistic and disciplinary boundaries.

About this title

About the Authors

Stephen Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

Erik Kwakkel is a lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Disciplines at Leiden University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802099343
• ISBN 13: 9780802099341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Partridge Stephen, Kwakkel Erik