Textual Criticism, British Isles - Folk Music, English, Scottish, & Welsh Drama, Medieval European Literature - Literary Criticism, Ballads, Medieval History - Social Aspects, Medieval English Literature - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - Medieval - L
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Overview
Only recently has the study of medieval literature gone beyond approaches pioneered in the nineteenth century. The contributors to this volume attack this problem using approaches that range from purely Peircean semiotic to semiotic hermeneutics and reader response. One contributor even speaks of the DOS (Disk Operating System) of certain medieval texts. This work aims at establishing new ways of discussing medieval textuality with its complexities being discussed at both textual and global levels.Editorials
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Seven papers selected and edited from a 1987 colloquium in which medieval scholars interested in semiotics demonstrated new approaches to the field that were not being published in the professional literature. Among the topics are textual problems of popular literature with ballads as a case study, folk and episodic narrative, the modes of the Old English metrical charms, and the lesson of the bestiary. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
March 1, 1998
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c1998.
Pages
151
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820430263