'Bothe Text and Gloss': Manuscript Form, the Textuality of Commentary, and Chaucer's Dream Poems

Author / Editor
Irvine, Martin.

Title
'Bothe Text and Gloss': Manuscript Form, the Textuality of Commentary, and Chaucer's Dream Poems

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. 81-119.

Description
Various practices of writing and formatting texts clarify how authors imagined writing and how readers received vernacular texts. Using models from cultural studies, editorial theory, semiotics, and traditions of medieval commentary, Irvine argues that Chaucer's dream poems reproduce the metatextual and metalingual consciousness represented by the interplay of text and gloss in a manuscrtipt culture.

Alternative Title
The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.