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Diverting Authorities : Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print by Jane Griffiths; UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book 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 of authorial reflection on the writing process, and with the emergence of the gloss as a self-consciously literary mode. 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-upon 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, it 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 b

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Author

Jane Griffiths; UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic UK

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199654512

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Computer Science