Spectres of Agency

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 5
3. List of Contents 7
4. In Search of the Culprit. Aspects of Medieval Authorship 9
5. “… who is the author of this book?” 17
6. The Primal Scribe 53
7. The ‘Heteronomous Authorship’ of Icelandic Saga Literature 75
8. Stylometry and the Faded Fingerprints of Saga Authors 97
9. Anonymity and the Textual Construction of Authority in Prosimetrum 123
10. The Persistence of the Humanistic Legacy 141
11. Spectres of Agency 175
12. A Theory of Early Modern Authorship 193
13. Shakespeare’s Medieval Co-Authors 217
14. Conceptions of Authorship 239
15. The Best-Written Saga and the Absence of its Author 265
16. Figures and Charts 289
17. Index of Names 291
18. Index of Works 294
19. Index of Manuscripts 297
20. Index of Matters 299