Editing, Orality, and Late Middle English Texts
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
Editing, Orality, and Late Middle English Texts
- Published
- A.N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternack, eds. Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), pp. 229-45.
- Description
- Questions the role of orality in the recording and transmission of Middle English texts, suggesting that various attitudes and techniques of oral improvisation have left residues in these texts and that modern editors should use oral models. Draws examples from TC, PF, and elsewhere.
- Alternative Title
- Vox Intexta.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.