Manuscript, narrative, lexicon
Subtitle: essays on literary and cultural transmission in honor of Whitney F. Bolton
By: edited by Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis.
Contributors: Boenig, Robert, 1948-; Davis, Kathleen, 1952-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: English philology.; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Criticism, Textual.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Criticism, Textual.; Transmission of texts.; Language and culture.; Manuscripts, English.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "Eleven literary scholars and linguists examine the range of transmission processes important to medieval literature and to the history of the English language. Contributors investigate issues such as the editorial reshaping of manuscripts; the reformulation of textual material as it crosses genres; and the mediation of doctrine through translation. Several authors study cases of transmission and exchange significant to the development of Middle and Modern English.

Each of these essays considers the convoluted nature of the transmission process in question, and reconsiders the historical framework that has informed our own reception of it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.