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Textual Distortion (Hardcover)
Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker; Contributions by Aaron Kelly, Claude Willan, Dan Kim, …
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The notion of what it means to "distort" a text is here explored
through a rich variety of individual case studies. Distortion is
nearly always understood as negative. It can be defined as
perversion, impairment, caricature, corruption, misrepresentation,
or deviation. Unlike its close neighbour, "disruption", it remains
resolutely associatedwith the undesirable, the lost, or the
deceptive. Yet it is also part of a larger knowledge system,
filling the gap between the authentic event and its experience; it
has its own ethics and practice, and it is necessarily incorporated
in all meaningful communication. Need it always be a negative
phenomenon? How does distortion affect producers, transmitters and
receivers of texts? Are we always obliged to acknowledge
distortion? What effect does a distortive process have on the
intentionality, materiality and functionality, not to say the
cultural, intellectual and market value, of all textual objects?
The essays in this volume seek to address these questions,They
range fromthe medieval through the early modern to contemporary
periods and, throughout, deliberately challenge periodisation and
the canonical. Topics treated include Anglo-Saxon manuscripts,
Reformation documents and poems, Global Shakespeare, the Oxford
English Dictionary, Native American spiritual objects, and digital
tools for re-envisioning textual relationships. From the written to
the spoken, the inhabited object to the remediated, distortion is
demonstrated to demand a rich and provocative mode of analysis.
Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities,
Professor of English, Director of the Centre for Spatial and
Textual Analysis, and Director of Stanford Technologies at Stanford
University; Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English
Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Matthew
Aiello, Emma Cayley, Aaron Kelly, Daeyeong (Dan) Kim, Sarah
Ogilvie, Timothy Powell, Giovanni Scorcioni, Greg Walker, Claude
Willan.
Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies -
from literature and material culture to religion and politics.
Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent
appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh
and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to
religion and the afterlives of Old Englishtexts, from
reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of
Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw
especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and
issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a
"state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of
Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume also includes contributions from
the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. Dr
Stuart McWilliams is a Newby Trust Fellow, Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Contributors:
Ciaran Carson, Marilina Cesario, Mary Clayton, Ivan Herbison, Joyce
Hill, Malcolm Godden, Chris Jones, Christina Lee, Medbh McGuckian,
Stuart McWilliams, Juliet Mullins, Elisabeth Okasha, Jane Roberts,
Donald Scragg, Mary Swan, John Thompson, Elaine Treharne, Robert
Upchurch, Gordon Whatley, Jonathan Wilcox
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major
manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions
about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the
online environment. Through contributions from a large group of
distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the
impact of being able to access and interpret these early
manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a
world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts,
comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the
uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their
contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple
perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In
addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of
analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their
physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the
opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation
of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological,
palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of
reader reception, image production, and the implications of new
technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the
Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the
role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the
book will appeal to scholars and students working in the
disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary
Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major
manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions
about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the
online environment. Through contributions from a large group of
distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the
impact of being able to access and interpret these early
manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a
world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts,
comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the
uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their
contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple
perspectives including production, materiality, and reception. In
addition, the volume explicates new interdisciplinary frameworks of
analysis for the study of the relationship between texts and their
physical contexts, while centring on an appreciation of the
opportunities and challenges effected by the digital representation
of a tangible object. Approaches extend from the codicological,
palaeographical, linguistic, and cultural to considerations of
reader reception, image production, and the implications of new
technologies for future discoveries. Medieval Manuscripts in the
Digital Age advances the debate in manuscript studies about the
role of digital and computational sources and tools. As such, the
book will appeal to scholars and students working in the
disciplines of Digital Humanities, Medieval Studies, Literary
Studies, Library and Information Science, and Book History.
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework
that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from
the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as early
as 60,000 BCE—to the present day. At its core, it examines the
material history of communication: what constitutes a text, the
purposes for which it is intended, how it functions, and the social
ends that it serves. This coursebook can be used to support any
pedagogical or research activities in text technologies, the
history of the book, the history of information, and textually
based work in the digital humanities. Through careful explanations
of the field, examinations of terminology and themes, and
illustrated case studies of diverse texts—from the Cyrus cylinder
to the Eagles' "Hotel California"—Elaine Treharne and Claude
Willan offer a clear yet nuanced overview of how humans convey
meaning. Text Technologies will enable students and teachers to
generate multiple lines of inquiry into how communication—its
production, form and materiality, and reception—is crucial to any
interpretation of culture, history, and society.
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and
texts. The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the
sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates,
bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between
them demonstrate a range of critical and materialapproaches to
medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They
scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how
careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension
of production, and receptionacross time; analyse metaphor for our
understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of
textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the
twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific
historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of
significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later
medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a
new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making
a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed
focus on individual cases can yield important new findings.
Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick,
Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne
Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret
M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.
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Arthurian Literature XXXV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Andrew Rabin, Carl B. Sell, Christopher Michael Berard, …
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The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur
are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The rich
vitality of both the Arthurian material itself and the scholarship
devoted to it is manifested in this volume. It begins with an
interdisciplinary study of swords belonging to Arthurian and other
heroes and of the smithswho made them, assessed both in their
literary contexts and in "historical" references to their existence
as heroic relics. Two essays then consider the use of Arthurian
material for political purposes: a discussion of Caradog's Vita
Gildae throws light on the complex attitudes to Arthur of
contemporaries of Geoffrey of Monmouth in a time of political
turmoil in England, and an investigation into borrowings from
Geoffrey's Historia in a chronicle of Anglo-Scottish relations in
the time of Edward I, a well-known admirer of the Arthurian legend,
argues that they would have appealed to the clerical elite. Romance
motifs link the subsequent pieces: women and their friendships in
Ywain and Gawain, the only known close English adaptation of a
romance by Chretien, and the mixture of sacred and secular in The
Turke and Gawain, with fascinating alchemical parallels for a
puzzling beheading episode. This is followed by a discussion of the
views on native and foreign sources of three sixteenth-century
defenders of Arthur, John Leland, John Prise and Humphrey Llwyd,
and their responses to the criticisms of Polydore Vergil. In
twentieth-century reception history, John Steinbeck was an ardent
Arthurian enthusiast: an essay looks at the significance of his
annotations to his copy of Malory as he worked on his adaptation,
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. The volume moves to
even more recent territory with an exploration of the adaptations
of Malory and other Arthurian writers that occur in the comic books
by Geoff Johns about Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, King of Atlantis.
The book is completed by a reprint of a classic essay by Norris
Lacy on the absence and presence of the Grail in Arthurian texts
from the twelfth century on.
Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and
imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile,
text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within
both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run
through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic
complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux
Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts,
and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify
iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers
the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and
intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the
material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon
peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to
Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of
scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and
cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and
intertextual relationships between text and textile. MAREN CLEGG
HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the
Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK
is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys,
Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov,
Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de
Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine
Treharne.
The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework
that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from
the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as early
as 60,000 BCE—to the present day. At its core, it examines the
material history of communication: what constitutes a text, the
purposes for which it is intended, how it functions, and the social
ends that it serves. This coursebook can be used to support any
pedagogical or research activities in text technologies, the
history of the book, the history of information, and textually
based work in the digital humanities. Through careful explanations
of the field, examinations of terminology and themes, and
illustrated case studies of diverse texts—from the Cyrus cylinder
to the Eagles' "Hotel California"—Elaine Treharne and Claude
Willan offer a clear yet nuanced overview of how humans convey
meaning. Text Technologies will enable students and teachers to
generate multiple lines of inquiry into how communication—its
production, form and materiality, and reception—is crucial to any
interpretation of culture, history, and society.
The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been
transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied
documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge
Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in
the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production
and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600-1500. Accessible
explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major
methodologies and explain why skills in understanding early book
production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a
rich cultural heritage. Chapters by leading specialists in
manuscript studies range from explaining how manuscripts were
stored, to revealing the complex networks of readers and writers
which can be understood through manuscripts, to an in depth
discussion on the Wycliffite Bible.
Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an
understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point
of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most
profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means
readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript
in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex
to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made
through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of
the book's life from the moment of its production to its use,
collection, breaking-up, and digitization-all aspects of what can
be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. The ten chapters include
detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript
manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book
that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and
consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts' blank
spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing
how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts'
heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature
books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become
archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best
read as 'relics of existence', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes
things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the
manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood
in the context of the book's wholeness. Readers of this study will
find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the
distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future
continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.
This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the
emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland,
including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and
Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest
poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the
historical and intellectual background to these works, and
considers the physical production of the manuscripts and the
earliest beginnings of print culture. Covering both well-known
texts, such as Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and the Mabinogion, as
well as texts that are much less familiar, such as sermons, saints'
lives, lyrics and histories, Treharne discusses major themes such
as sin and salvation, kingship and authority, myth and the
monstrous, and provides a full, but brief, account of one of the
major periods in literary history. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been
transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied
documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge
Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in
the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production
and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600–1500.
Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the
major methodologies and explain why skills in understanding early
book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing
a rich cultural heritage. Chapters by leading specialists in
manuscript studies range from explaining how manuscripts were
stored, to revealing the complex networks of readers and writers
which can be understood through manuscripts, to an in depth
discussion on the Wycliffite Bible.
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in
the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the
discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the
scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and
penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields
and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space
and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of
studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have
emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval
studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings
together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those
of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a
comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today.
It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions
about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and
the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook
contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading
scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range
from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric
poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and
marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies
and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of
key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse
and key authors from AElfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the
Gawain Poet.
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