{"product_id":"mythodologies-methods-in-medieval-studies-chaucer-and-book-history-paperback","title":"Mythodologies: Methods in Medieval Studies, Chaucer, and Book History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph a. Dane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMythodologies challenges the implied methodology in contemporary studies in the humanities. We claim, at times, that we gather facts or what we will call evidence, and from that form hypotheses and conclusions. Of course, we recognize that the sum total of evidence for any argument is beyond comprehension; therefore, we construct, and we claim, preliminary hypotheses, perhaps to organize the chaos of evidence, or perhaps simply to find it; we might then see (we claim) whether that evidence challenges our tentative hypotheses. Ideally, we could work this way. Yet the history of scholarship and our own practices suggest we do nothing of the kind. Rather, we work the way we teach our composition students to write: choose or construct a thesis, then invent the evidence to support it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has three parts, examining such methods and pseudo-methods of invention in medieval studies, bibliography, and editing. Part One, \"Noster Chaucer,\" looks at examples in Chaucer studies, such as the notion that Chaucer wrote iambic pentameter, and the definition of a canon in Chaucer. \"Our\" Chaucer has, it seems, little to do with Chaucer himself, and in constructing this entity, Chaucerians are engaged largely in self-validation of their own tradition. Part Two, \"Bibliography and Book History,\" consists of three studies in the field of bibliography: the recent rise in studies of annotations; the implications of presumably neutral terminology in editing, a case-study in cataloguing. Part Three, \"Cacophonies: A Bibliographical Rondo,\" is a series of brief studies extending these critiques to other areas in the humanities. It seems not to matter what we talk about: meter, book history, the sex life of bonobos. In all of these discussions, we see the persistence of error, the intractability of uncritical assumptions, and the dominance of authority over evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS \/\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Noster Chaucerus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 1. How Many Chaucerians Does it Take to Count to Eleven? The Meter of Kynaston's 1635 Translation of Troilus and Criseyde and its Implications for Chaucerian Metrics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 2. Chaucer's \"Rude Times\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 3. Meditation on Our Chaucer and the History of the Canon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda. Godwin's Portrait of Chaucer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Bibliography and Book History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 4. The Singularities of Books and Reading .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 5. Editorial Projecting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChap. 6. The Haunting of Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea (1646)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoda. T. F. Dibdin: The Rhetoric of Bibliophilia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Cacophonies: A Bibliographic Rondo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFakes and Frauds: The \"Flewelling Antiphonary\" and Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernity and Middle English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Quantification of Readability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Elephant Paper and Histories of Medieval Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pynson Chaucer(s) of 1526: Bibliographical Circularity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mead and the Bonobos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading My Library\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His books on book history and bibliography include Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History (Pennsylvania, 2013), Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture (Pennsylvania, 2011), What is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books (Notre Dame, 2012), and The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method (Toronto, 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796101005600,"sku":"9781947447561","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/66f853a7f762b13d38b320079653c0f5.webp?v=1780750515","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mythodologies-methods-in-medieval-studies-chaucer-and-book-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}