In Search of the Culprit : Aspects of Medieval Authorship / ed. by Stefanie Gropper, Lukas Rösli.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Andere Ästhetik - Studien ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)Content type:- text
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- 9783110725339
- 808.020902
- Issued also in print.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contents -- In Search of the Culprit. Aspects of Medieval Authorship -- "... who is the author of this book?" -- The Primal Scribe -- The 'Heteronomous Authorship' of Icelandic Saga Literature -- Stylometry and the Faded Fingerprints of Saga Authors -- Anonymity and the Textual Construction of Authority in Prosimetrum -- The Persistence of the Humanistic Legacy -- Spectres of Agency -- A Theory of Early Modern Authorship -- Shakespeare's Medieval Co-Authors -- Conceptions of Authorship -- The Best-Written Saga and the Absence of its Author -- Figures and Charts -- Index of Names -- Index of Works -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Matters
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Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.
Issued also in print.
funded by Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 Andere Ästhetik
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