Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript.

Author / Editor
Rogers, Cynthia A.

Title
Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript.

Published
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 183-202.

Description
Focuses on the "outcast" lyrics of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6), i.e., those "“overlooked" poems as they appear among works by Chaucer and others. Analyzes how the lyrics "respond" to the works they accompany (particularlyPity and Richar d Roos’s English version of "La Belle Dame sans Mercy"), and what they thereby reveal about late medieval and early modern reading practices.

Alternative Title
Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Complaint unto Pity