| Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts Contributor(s): Hanna, Ralph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804726132 ISBN-13: 9780804726139 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1996 Annotation: This volume argues through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of "textual criticism" as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and recovery, pointing out the need for attention to the physical bearers of our knowledge of the English Middle Ages, the books themselves, and the ignored and alienating features of manuscript culture. The book begins with three essays that seek to problematize medieval book production, to show the procedure as more a fluid and emergent than a foreplanned process. The following two essays provide theoretical statements about the textual uses of manuscripts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 95022805 |
| Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.57 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume argues, through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of textual criticism as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and recovery, pointing out the need for attention to the physical bearers of our knowledge of the English Middle Ages, the books themselves, and the ignored and alienating features of manuscript culture. It examines medieval book production, the textual uses of manuscripts, the nature of medieval meditations and looks in detail at work by Chaucer and Langland. In conclusion, the volume considers the problem of textual annotation in the light of both history and literary theory. |