Multiple Scripts and Narrative - Medieval English in Conversation with Modern Japanese

This book investigates the practice of mixing writing systems while composing a literary text. Through assessment of highly distinct writing contexts, it explores how the choice of script, in its own right, plays a fascinating role as a prominent narrative feature. The book's primary focus is on the context of Old English and the 'signed' Cynewulf poems as examples of vernacular verse transcribed in the Latin alphabet, but which also employ textual runes. However, the book challenges the confines of conventional medievalist scholarship by presenting a parallel perspective shift analysis of the same phenomenon as witnessed in the radically different cultural environment of Modern Japanese and in the globally bestselling fiction of a contemporary writer, Haruki Murakami. Through a comparative focus on people and on reception, the author breaks the problematic seal on early English studies and invites medieval texts to join in an intrinsically interdisciplinary conversation.

Sommario

List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Introduction: The Semiotics of Script Choice - Early English Multiliteralism in Context - Cynewulf in the Exeter Book: Christ II, Juliana - Cynewulf in the Vercelli Book: The Fates of the Apostles, Elene - Perspective Shift: Contrasts with Modern Japanese Polygraphy - Contributive Literature: Transcribing Perceptions of Voice - Coda - Index.

Info autore

Jacob W. Runner
is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies at Kanazawa University in Japan, where he teaches English, Latin, and Comparative Literature. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Nottingham and an MLitt in Mediaeval English from the University of St Andrews.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jacob Runner
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781636674131
• ISBN: 978-1-63667-413-1
• Pagine: 196
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 15 mm x 229 mm
• Peso: 388 g
• Illustrazioni: 5 Abb.
• Serie: Medieval Interventions
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Modern, Language, English, Jacob, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Japanese, Narrative, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Conversation, Comparative Literature, medieval, Runner, Classical texts, Multiple, Philip, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Semiotics / semiology, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Language and Linguistics, Poetry / Poems, Scripts, Dunshea