IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1255: When a Text Becomes a Book: Theoretical Reflections on the Paratextuality of Medieval Literature, III - Editing Manuscripts
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Ambizione Project 'Gedächtniskultur im Paratext - Textränder altnordischer Prosahandschriften', Universität Zürich, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
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| Organisers: | Friederike Richter, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Lukas Rösli, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich |
| Moderator/Chair: | Patrick Andrist, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Paper 1255-a | When a Text Becomes Its Paratext: Reshaping Lydgate's Fall of Princes (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History |
| Paper 1255-b | Fortunatus and the Consequences of Changing a Book (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History |
| Paper 1255-c | Trailing Quattrocento Letter Books: Production, Meaning, Readership (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Printing History, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | The question of the changeability of paratexts through edition and transmission is the topic of the third session. How does the reception and meaning of a text change if its form of presentation, which is defined by the paratext, is substantially changed? At the centre of the discussion is the problem of editing paratexts, both in historical dimensions and in the production of contemporary editions and reproductions of texts in manuscripts as printed books. And what influence do such paratexts have on the reception of a text, or how consciously is the way a book is read controlled by paratexts? |