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Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in
medieval texts. The twenty-first century has witnessed the
re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one
project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the
effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their
objects of study. The presumed relation between form and the
literary that this project presupposes, however, raises questions
that still need to be addressed. What is it about form that
produces the category of the literary? What precisely is literary
about literary form? Can the literary be defined beyond form? This
volume explores these questions in the historical and geographical
frame of late medieval Britain, across vaunted literary works such
as the Franklin's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the
Towneley Shepherds' Plays, and presumed "non-literary" texts, such
as books of hours. By studying texts from a period long priorto
literary formalism - indeed, before any fully articulated theory of
the literary - the essays gathered here aim to rethink the
relationship between form and the literary. Robert J. Meyer-Lee is
Margaret W. PepperdeneDistinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes
Scott College; Catherine Sanok is an Associate Professor of English
and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Contributors:
Anke Bernau, Jessica Brantley, Seeta Chaganti, Shannon Gayk,
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Andrew Klein, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Ingrid
Nelson, Maura Nolan, Sarah Elliott Novacich, Catherine Sanok, Emily
Steiner, Claire M. Waters.
In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica
Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture
that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital
theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200
illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad
survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts
and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary
witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans
Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The
Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts,
decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of
such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language,
miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation,
illustration, and performance-as well as of the status of the
literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the
reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a
selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality
digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts,
fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the
artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual
exploration and facilitating the book's classroom use. Medieval
English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad
group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript
studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks
surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through
the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for
the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for
a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our
own.
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