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"Ye That Heres and Sees this Vision": Imagined Readers, Imagined Reading in Late Medieval English Devotional Writing
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | "Ye That Heres and Sees this Vision": Imagined Readers, Imagined Reading in Late Medieval English Devotional Writing. |
| 개인저자 | Huffman, Rebecca. |
| 단체저자명 | University of Michigan. English Language & Literature. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of Michigan., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 186 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781687927408 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Tinkle, Theresa L. |
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| 요약 | Drawing on a range of Middle English devotional writings from ca. 1370 to ca. 1435, including a confessional manual, revelatory visions, an autobiography, and lives of Christ, I argue that writers in these genres imagine a vast and variously literate lay readership. This project investigates how texts and writers engage with readers. At the same time, it uses manuscript evidence to examine the different ways in which historical readers came into contact with devotional texts.The first chapter uses the Parson's Tale in Longleat MS 29, a compilation of devotional texts where the Parson appears alongside Walter Hilton and Richard Rolle, to construct a reading of the tale as a lay-oriented penitential manual for self-directed devout readers. With Chaucer's name cut from the tale and the work presented in an unambiguously religious context, the manual fosters independent spiritual edification for its readers while continuing to direct them to the institutional church for the sacrament of confession.In the second chapter, this project moves to Julian of Norwich's Short and Long Texts. Readers here are imagined as allies and students |
| 일반주제명 | Medieval literature. Literature. British & Irish literature. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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