Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Blatt, Heather.
Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- vi, 261 pp.
- Series
- Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Description
- Draws on modern media studies to clarify practices of "participatory reading" in late medieval England, exploring how vernacular authors, texts, and manuscripts elicit and/or limit the agency of their readers who engage with texts in making meaning, often in embodied ways. Attends recurrently to Chaucer’s works, including analysis of his request that Gower and Strode "correcte" TC (V.1858) as a "closed access" invitation to limited participation (similarly found in Adam). Also treats "non-reading" in TC and WBP, and assesses the placement of John Lydgate's "The Siege of Thebes" in CT in relation to KnT as evidence that Lydgate "grants . . . license to nonlinear readings" of the works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Adam Scriveyn
Manuscripts and Textual Studies