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Marking the medieval: the textual afterlives of Middle English texts
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This project explores the ways in which Middle English manuscript texts are re-formed by linguistic, technological, and ideological change. The transition from manuscript to print and digital cultures invites such an investigation, particularly into how medieval texts were re-fashioned for various print-based existences, and how their textual afterlives are inextricably linked to developments in text technology. Building off of what Siân Echard calls “the mark of the medieval” (2008: 4), this dissertation adopts a tripartite focus, and addresses three main research questions: 1) How did printers of The Canterbury Tales mark the medieval for their readers — that is, what strategies of textual representation did print culture provide for ensuring a text was perceived as authentically medieval? 2) How do print editions of the The Canterbury Tales handle the punctuation marks found in manuscripts, and what does this reveal about medieval and early modern reading practices? 3) In an age where text technology is shifting again, now from print to digital, how can Middle English texts be marked for machine readability in order to facilitate a diachronic, processual understanding of their textual afterlives? As D.C. Greetham notes, “all facets of a book’s history and presentation are ultimately connected,” and the reading practices of today deserve no less attention than those of the 14th and 15th centuries (1992: 294).
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P Philology. Linguistics; PR English literature; Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
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URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5639/1/2014fahssimphil.pdf http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5639/ https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b3085814
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Studies in language change in Bishop Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry
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Studies in pre-Reformation Carthusian vernacular manuscripts: the cases of Dom William Mede and Dom Stephen Dodesham of Sheen
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From quill to T-PEN: palaeography, editing and their e-future
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An investigation into the language and letters of Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527-1608)
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How to write a research methodology for an undergraduate dissertation
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Interdisciplinary approaches to second language writing systems
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Disciplinary identities: individuality and community in academic writing
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Learning to write: issues in theory, research, and pedagogy
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Hyland, Ken. - : Asociacion Europea de Lenguas para Fines Especificos, 2011
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Dygitalizacja i komputeryzacja słowników na przykładzie Słownika polszczyzny XVI wieku
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Bień, Janusz S.. - : Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN i Wydawnictwo LEXIS, 2010
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Dygitalizacja i komputeryzacja słowników na przykładzie Słownika polszczyzny XVI wieku
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Bień, Janusz S.. - : Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN i Wydawnictwo LEXIS, 2010
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Functional Class (so Called "Part of Speech") Assignment as a Kind of Meaning-Bound Word Syntactic Information
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English for professional academic purposes: writing for scholarly publication
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