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Participatory reading in late-medieval England /

This book explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodiment are practices intimately familiar to readers of Wikipedia, players of video games and users of mul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blatt, Heather (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media
  • Part I. Partcipatory discourse
  • Corrective reading : Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy book
  • Nonlinear reading : the Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
  • Part II. Evoking participation
  • Reading materially : John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI'
  • Reading architecturally : the wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral
  • Reading temporarily : Thomas of Erceldoune's Prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy
  • Conclusion : Nonreading in late-medieval England.