Textual Distortion

The notion of what it means to "distort" a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.

List of contents

Introduction - Elaine Treharne
The Curious Production and Reconstruction of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85 and 86 - Matthew Aiello
Through a glass darkly, or, rethinking medieval materiality: a tale of carpets, screens, and parchment - Emma Cayley
Distortion, Ideology, Time: Proletarian Aesthetics in the work of Lionel Britton - Aaron Kelly
Shakespeare and Korea: Mutual Remappings - Dan Kim
Dictionary Distortions - Sarah Ogilvie
Where Do Indigenous Origin Stories and Empowered Objects Fit into a Literary History of the American Continent? - Timothy Powell
Distortion in Textual Object Facsimile Production: a Liability or an Asset? - Giovanni Scorcionni
The Uncanny Reformation: Revenant Texts and Distorted Time in Henrician England - Greg Walker
The Presence of the Book - Claude Willan

About the author

Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker
• Assisted by: Elaine Treharne (Editor), Elaine (Author) Treharne (Editor), Greg Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2017
• EAN: 9781843844792
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-479-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 367 g
• Series: Essays and Studies; Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies