Bridges to the Past: Orientation, Materiality, and Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England.

Author / Editor
Gillum, Anthony D.

Title
Bridges to the Past: Orientation, Materiality, and Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England.

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2021,
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.04(E).

Description
Based on "Sara Ahmed's phenomenological theorization of 'orientation',” offers case studies of how "the orientation(s) of medieval readers might have influenced their experience of a text," discussing the experience of reading CT in Wynkyn De Worde's 1498 edition and considering "orientation as it applies to Chaucer’s embodied narrative personae" in works that include HF, PF, Scog, Ven, and LGWP.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Envoy to Scogan
Complaint of Venus