TY - GEN AU - Blatt,Heather TI - Participatory reading in late-medieval England SN - 9781526118004 PY - 2017///1101 CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Literary studies: classical, early & medieval KW - bicssc KW - Literature KW - reading KW - readers KW - digital media KW - textuality KW - reading history KW - Chaucer KW - Lydgate KW - bodies or embodiment KW - time KW - movement or mobility KW - England KW - Geoffrey Chaucer KW - John Lydgate KW - Manuscript KW - Medieval literature N1 - Open Access N2 - This book explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodiment are practices intimately familiar to readers of Wikipedia, players of video games and users of multi-touch mobile devices. But far from being unique to digital media, they have clear analogues in the pre-modern era. Participatory reading in late-medieval England traces how the affinities between old and new media can reveal fresh insights not only about the digital, but also about the long history of media forms and practices. It thus casts new light on the literary practices of a period pre- and post-print to demonstrate how participatory reading vitally contributed to and shaped these negotiations of fragile authority UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30214/1/648364.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30214/1/648364.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30214/1/648364.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38712 ER -