Odd Texts and Marginal Subjects: Towards a Hermeneutics of the Book in Late Medieval English Manuscript Culture.
- Author / Editor
- Rust, Martha Dana.
Odd Texts and Marginal Subjects: Towards a Hermeneutics of the Book in Late Medieval English Manuscript Culture.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2000. Dissertation Abstracts International A62.01. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
- Physical Description
- v, 376 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Studies "the bibliographic sensibility that characterized late medieval English manuscript culture," analyzing "the dialectical interaction between literary representation and its material support in a selection of late Middle English poems." Includes discussion of ABC as an abcedarium, comments on BD, and analyzes paratextual materials in TC. The dissertation was revised and published as "Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix," New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
ABC
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde