Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe

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Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe

Edited by: Bart Besamusca , Elisabeth de Bruijn and Frank Willaert

Languages: English, German, French

Published/Copyright: 2020

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The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that already existed in manuscript form undergo significant modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which strategies did early printers develop to make their texts commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on developments in the history of early printed narrative texts, others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from various disciplines to get involved in an international conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative literature.

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Bart Besamusca, Utrecht, Netherlands; Elisabeth de Bruijn and Frank Willaert, Antwerp, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	IX
Introduction Bart Besamusca, Elisabeth de Bruijn and Frank Willaert Open Access Download PDF	1
I. The History of Early Printing of Narrative Texts
Durchbruch zur Prosa und der Einfluss des Buchdrucks auf die deutschsprachige Erzählliteratur des 15. Jahrhunderts Christa Bertelsmeier-Kierst Open Access Download PDF	17
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Production and Reception of Middle Dutch Narrative Literature Bart Besamusca and Frank Willaert Open Access Download PDF	49
The Southern Appeal: Dutch Translations of French Romances (c. 1484–c. 1540) in a Western European Perspective Elisabeth de Bruijn Open Access Download PDF	93
The Printing of English Narratives in Wynkyn de Worde’s Later Career Julia Boffey Open Access Download PDF	125
The Publication of English Medieval Romances after the Death of Wynkyn de Worde, 1536–1569 Jordi Sánchez-Martí Open Access Download PDF	143
Production éditoriale et diffusion des récits arthuriens en France (XV^e–XVI^e siècles) Francesco Montorsi Open Access Download PDF	167
L’édition imprimée des textes médiévaux en langue française au début du seizième siècle. Le cas de Galliot du Pré (1512–1560) Olivier Delsaux and Tania Van Hemelryck Open Access Download PDF	189
II. Publication Strategies
Visual Narrative: The Aeneid Woodcuts from Sebastian Brant’s Edition of Virgil (Strasbourg 1502) in Thomas Murner’s Translation of the Aeneid (Strasbourg 1515) Julia Frick Open Access Download PDF	241
Dasselbe nochmal: Narratives Potenzial von Bildwiederholungen in frühneuzeitlichen Romanen Nicolas Potysch Open Access Download PDF	273
Old-Fashioned in Order to be Modern: Seghelijn van Iherusalem and its Woodcuts Jef Schaeps Open Access Download PDF	297
Ritter, Romance, Rewriting. Überlegungen zur dänischen Erzählliteratur in der Frühdruckzeit am Beispiel der Historie von Persenober oc Constantianobis (1572) Anna Katharina Richter Open Access Download PDF	325
What’s in a Name? On the Titles of Early Modern Narratives, in Particular Those of the Spanish libros de caballerías Daniel Syrovy Open Access Download PDF	351
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	375
Index of Manuscripts Open Access Download PDF	377
Index of Titles Open Access Download PDF	379
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	389

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eBook published on:

November 5, 2019

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9783110563016

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November 5, 2019

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9783110563009

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Front matter:

10

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395

Illustrations:

14

Coloured Illustrations:

28

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563016

eBook ISBN: 9783110563016

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110563009

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History of printing; early printing houses; narrative literature; media history; cross-linguistic research

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Roman, English, German and Dutsch philologists and literary scholars

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