Author, Reader, Book : Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442665743
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 p.)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice -- 1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture -- 2. Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) -- 3. Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts -- 4. The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context -- 5. 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler -- 6. Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers -- 7. Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions -- 8. Master Henryson and Father Aesop -- 9. Erasmus's Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Index of Manuscripts |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in print. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) |
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Subject: | Authors and readers -- History -- To 1500 Authorship -- History -- To 1500 Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship Multi-User. |