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Diverting Authorities - Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print (Hardcover)
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Diverting Authorities - Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print (Hardcover)
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Diverting Authorities 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
transmission of a number of glossed texts in both manuscript and
print, but also examines glossing that is integral to texts written
with print production in mind. With the latter, it focuses
particularly on a little-remarked but surprisingly common category
of gloss: glossing that is ostentatiously playful, diverting rather
than directing its readers. Setting this in the context of emerging
print conventions and concerns about the stability of print, Jane
Griffiths argues that--like self-glossing in manuscript--such
diverting glosses shape as well as reflect contemporary ideas of
authorship and authority, and are thus genuinely experimental. The
book reads across medieval-renaissance and manuscript-print
boundaries in order to trace the emergence of the gloss as a genre
and the way in which theories of authorship are affected by the
material processes of writing and transmission.
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