Name: Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
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Author: Coleman, Joyce
ISBN: 9780521673518

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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joyce Coleman

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0521673518

ISBN13

9780521673518

Synopsis "Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) "

For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for private readers. This book challenges that view and current orthodoxies in orality-literacy theory. It assembles and analyses in depth, for the first time, an overwhelming mass of evidence that in both Britain and France from the mid-fourteenth to the late-fifteenth century, literate, elite audiences continued to prefer public reading (aloud in groups) to private reading. This book offers the first sustained critique of Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy (1982), which has encouraged medievalists to underestimate the nature and role of late medieval public reading. Using an 'ethnographic' methodology, Joyce Coleman develops several schema from the data and applies them in analyses of texts including historical records, works by Chaucer and other writings into the late-fifteenth century.

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