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Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Mary C. Flannery
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Description for Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Hardback. Essayists in this collection break down the vital relationship between reading and space in medieval culture. A variety of approaches are employed to discuss the topic including literary analysis and contemporary film and architectural theory, in turn, complicating the notion of the stable, fixed text and reader. Editor(s): Griffin, Carrie. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces ... Read more
We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly. Cutting-edge technologies and developments in the publication and consumption of literature continue to uncover new physical, electronic, and virtual contexts in which reading can take place. In comparison with the accessibility that has accompanied these developments, the medieval reading experience may initially seem limited and restrictive, available only to a literate few or to their listeners; yet attention to the spaces in which medieval reading habits can be traced reveals a far more vibrant picture in which different kinds of spaces ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137428615
SKU
V9781137428615
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About Mary C. Flannery
Mary C. Flannery is a Maitre Assistante of English literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame. Carrie Griffin is a lecturer in early modern English literature in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Research Associate of English ... Read more
Reviews for Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England
Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England, Mary Flannery and Carrie Griffin set out to contribute to scholarly debates on the history of reading by focusing on the 'relationship between where reading took place and how it took place'. ... they aim to shed new light on different reading practices, and on the attitudes and responses people in late medieval ... Read more