Jane Griffiths Diverting authorities

experimental glossing practices in manuscript and print

This book examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means for authors to reflect on the process of shaping a text, and with the emergence of the gloss as a self-consciously literary form. One of the main questions it addresses is to what extent the advent of print affects glossing practices. To this end, it traces the...

Engels | 239 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2014

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Jane Griffiths A grip on thin air

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Engels | 64 pagina's | Bloodaxe, Tarset, Northumberland | 2000

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