Affective Literacies: Writing and Multilingualism in the Later Middle Ages (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

Amsler, Mark

ISBN 10: 2503532365 / ISBN 13: 9782503532363

Published by Brepols Publishers, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Affective Literacies: Writing and Multilingualism in the Later Middle Ages (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503532365
• ISBN 13: 9782503532363
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

New Literacy Studies, close reading, and historical sociolinguistics inform Amsler's analyses of late medieval writing and textual cultures. Amsler argues that medieval reading and writing make sense not as individual expressions with discrete texts but as multilingual, sociocultural, and intertextual practices that 'make people up' and that sustain or challenge dominant ideologies and reading formations. Rather than a single Literacy, we find socially situated literacies within manuscript matrices. Bringing new historical dimensions to literacy studies, Amsler explores the intertextualities, affective relations, and social contests in these multilingual formations. Individual chapters examine literacies as cultural practice in schooling and in elite and popular texts by Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Dante, Margery Kempe, devotional writers, Erasmus, and the Jewish convert Hermann von Sheda, along with grammatical writing, mythography, charms, drama, and educational texts. This volume illustrates the diversity of late medieval multilingual writings, textual performances, and embodied readings.

About the Author

Dr Mark Amsler is senior lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.