Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books, 1473-1557
- Author / Editor
- Gillespie, Alexandra.
Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books, 1473-1557
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 281 pp.
- Description
- Analyzing the impact of print on already-existing ideas of authorship, Gillespie argues "that the medieval author was a mechanism for ordering the new meanings of texts in print," even when the understanding of that author was a result, or "function," of interpretation of the author's texts. With its multiple narrators, CT exemplifies this function, for it illustrates how the concept of authority can both control and proliferate meaning. Chapter 3, "Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532," considers TC and PF along with 1526 and 1532 editions of Chaucer's works as examples of the "author function" within print culture. Also discusses HF and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales - General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- House of Fame.
- Chaucer's Retraction.