Diverting authorities : experimental glossing practices in manuscript and print / / Jane Griffiths [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Griffiths Jane
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 091
• Soggetto topico: Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscript design - History; English literature - History and criticism; Printing - Great Britain - History
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Material processes : the glossing of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and Fall of princes -- Authors, translators, and commentators : glossing practices in Bodleian MS Fairfax 16 -- Exhortations to the reader : the double glossing of Douglas' Eneados -- Glossing the spoken word : Erasmus' Moriae encomium and Chaloner's Praise of folie -- A broil of voices : the printed word in Baldwin's Beware the cat and Bullein's Dialogue against the fever pestilence -- 'Masking naked in a net' : author and text in the works of Gascoigne and Harington -- 'Playing the dolt in print' : the extemporary glossing of Nashe's Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the devil.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Diverting Authorities' examines literary experimentation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It looks at marginal annotations or 'glosses' provided by authors in a wide range of texts and argues that they provide important evidence for evolving ideas of authorship and literary authority.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diverting authorities
• ISBN: 0-19-178943-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157838103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II