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Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England

Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England

Blatt, Heather

Hardcover

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1526117991
ISBN13: 9781526117991
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Apr 5 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to - and contest - writers' burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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