Participatory reading in late-medieval England - (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture) by Heather Blatt (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book<i> </i>traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Late-medieval England witnessed a remarkable rise in the prominence of poetry and the sophistication of the English vernacular, to which both writers and readers contributed in fundamental ways. But while the transition of the medieval writer into the modern author, with a modern understanding of authority and the ownership of a text, has been extensively studied, the crucial role of the reader has been overlooked.<br /> <br /> Tracing affinities between digital and medieval media, this book explores how participation helped to define reading practices and shape relations between writers and readers from the late fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries. It draws on a wide variety of works - from Chaucer to banqueting poems and wall-texts - to demonstrate how medieval writers and readers engaged with practices familiar in digital media today. This includes such apparently modern ideas as crowd-sourced editing, nonlinear apprehension, mobility, temporality and forensic materiality. Writers turned to these practices in order to control readers' engagement in ways that would benefit their reputations and encourage the transmission and interpretation of their texts. Readers, meanwhile, pursued their own agendas, which often conflicted with or simply ignored writers' intentions.<br /> <br /> Shedding light on a previously unexplored area, <em>Participatory reading in late-medieval England </em>will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval literature and the history of the book, as well as those interested in the long history of media studies.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Late-medieval England witnessed a remarkable rise in the prominence of poetry and the sophistication of the English vernacular, to which both writers and readers contributed in fundamental ways. But while the transition of the medieval writer into the modern author, with a modern understanding of authority and the ownership of a text, has been extensively studied, the crucial role of the reader has been overlooked. Tracing affinities between digital and medieval media, this book explores how participation helped to define reading practices and shape relations between writers and readers from the late fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries. It draws on a wide variety of works - from Chaucer to banqueting poems and wall-texts - to demonstrate how medieval writers and readers engaged with practices familiar in digital media today. This includes such apparently modern ideas as crowd-sourced editing, nonlinear apprehension, mobility, temporality and forensic materiality. Writers turned to these practices in order to control readers' engagement in ways that would benefit their reputations and encourage the transmission and interpretation of their texts. Readers, meanwhile, pursued their own agendas, which often conflicted with or simply ignored writers' intentions. Shedding light on a previously unexplored area, <i>Participatory reading in late-medieval England </i>will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval literature and the history of the book, as well as those interested in the long history of media studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'I was impressed overall with Blatt's well written and thoughtful volume, seeing familiar texts in new ways and intrigued by ones that I did not know. It will be useful to scholars of Middle English both inside and outside of Digital Humanities.' TMR 'Participatory Reading offers innovative contexts in which to understand late medieval writing; these are questions we absolutely should be thinking about, and Blatt's intervention is an important one... the ideas here will no doubt influence how we continue to think and write about late medieval literary culture, and I very much look forward to seeing how this book shapes the ensuing conversation.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer 'Its foregrounding of participation makes it a worthy addition to the scholarly literature on reading practices.' Archiv<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br><strong>Heather Blatt</strong> is Associate Professor of English Literature at Florida International University<br>
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