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Mythodologies : methods in medieval studies, Chaucer, and book history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dane, Joseph A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Earth, Milky Way : Punctum Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism, Textual.
Early printed books > Bibliography > Methodology.
Literature, Medieval > Criticism, Textual.
Bibliography > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an exercise in bad faith
  • PART I. Noster Chaucerus. How many Chaucerians does it take to count to eleven? The meter of Kynaston's 1635 translation of Toilus and Criseyde
  • Chaucer's 'Rude Times'
  • Meditation on our Chaucer and the history of the canon
  • Godwin's Portrait of Chaucer
  • PART II. Bibliography and Book History. The singularities of books and reading
  • Editorial projecting
  • The haunting of Suckling's 'Fragmenta Aurea' (1646)
  • Coda. T. F. Dibdin: the Rhetoric of Bibliophilia
  • PART III. Cacophonies: a bibliographical rondo. Fakes and frauds: the 'Flewelling Antiphonary" and Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius'
  • Modernity and Middle English
  • The quantification of Readability
  • The elephant paper and the histories of medieval drama
  • The Pynson Chaucer(s) of 1526: bibliographical circularity
  • Margaret Mead and the Bonobos
  • Reading my library.