Middle English Text Production and Modern Textual Criticism
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
Middle English Text Production and Modern Textual Criticism
- Published
- A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 1-18.
- Description
- Challenges traditional distinctions between "auctor" and "scribe," associating their strict separation with New Criticism and affiliating it, in turn, with the methods of George Kane. Calls for a textual method sensitive to medieval notions of authority.
- Alternative Title
- Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.