Talking Back to the Text: Marginal Voices in Medieval Secular Literature
- Author / Editor
- Baswell, Christopher (C.)
Talking Back to the Text: Marginal Voices in Medieval Secular Literature
- Published
- Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 121-60.
- Description
- Medieval habits of reading characteristically produce "a voicing and an inscription of that voicing" (123), allowing for a fluidity of margin and text, reader and author. Geffrey's position as author and glossed text in LGWP and the Wife's position as text and speaker in WBP exemplify this process.
- Alternative Title
- The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Background and General Criticism.