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	== Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington ==		== Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington ==

	:"This study ponits toward three shifts in the history of reading: from ~~meieval~~ protocols of reading which figure the text and authorities as more or less seamless; to emergent humanist differentiations and hierarchizations of author, auctor, editor, and reader; and, finally, to the ways in which these new means of constructing authority were appropriated by vernacular writers seeking to invent a model or readership." (58)		:"This study ponits toward three shifts in the history of reading: from medieval protocols of reading which figure the text and authorities as more or less seamless; to emergent humanist differentiations and hierarchizations of author, auctor, editor, and reader; and, finally, to the ways in which these new means of constructing authority were appropriated by vernacular writers seeking to invent a model or readership." (58)

	commentaries on Horace -- "such pages exfoliate, extending outwards to include everything, seemingly all available commentary on Horace. The effect is not to differentiate but to repeat and reaffirm." (61)		commentaries on Horace -- "such pages exfoliate, extending outwards to include everything, seemingly all available commentary on Horace. The effect is not to differentiate but to repeat and reaffirm." (61)

Wtrettien: /* Authority, Control, Community: The English Printed Bible Page from Tyndale to the Authorized Version */

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Authority, Control, Community: The English Printed Bible Page from Tyndale to the Authorized Version

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	'''Miles Coverdale''', 1535 translation, less controversial;		'''Miles Coverdale''', 1535 translation, less controversial;

	'''Matthew's Bible'', 1537, given official sanction (20)		'''Matthew's Bible''', 1537, given official sanction (20)

	public vs. private authority in reading; glosses help distinguish true and false readers		public vs. private authority in reading; glosses help distinguish true and false readers

Wtrettien: /* Authority, Control, Community: The English Printed Bible Page from Tyndale to the Authorized Version */

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Authority, Control, Community: The English Printed Bible Page from Tyndale to the Authorized Version

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	:"The pure text reads itself -- or rather produces a moment of epiphany which erases the historical moment of reading. In contrast, the glossed texts becomes the site of duplicity and obstruction." (11)		:"The pure text reads itself -- or rather produces a moment of epiphany which erases the historical moment of reading. In contrast, the glossed texts becomes the site of duplicity and obstruction." (11)

	12th-century, scripture swallowed up by commentary; "The Scriptures are presented not as a plain text but as literally surrounded by tradition in he form of a mass of ''auctoritates''" (12)		12th-century, scripture swallowed up by commentary; "The Scriptures are presented not as a plain text but as literally surrounded by tradition in the form of a mass of ''auctoritates''" (12)

	'''Tyndale''':		'''Tyndale''':

Wtrettien: /* Introduction: Whose Text? */

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Introduction: Whose Text?

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	medieval period -- authority / auctor "always an other, located outside the writer and conferring authority from a historical distance" (2)		medieval period -- authority / auctor "always an other, located outside the writer and conferring authority from a historical distance" (2)

	:"The margins are not consistently a ~~sit~~ of subversion, consolidation, or containment, to invoke the rather limited possibilities offered by current historically oriented Renaissance debates. Rather, i argue that the margins and the text proper were in shifting relationships of authority; the margin might affirm, summarize, underwrite the main text block and thus tend to stabilize meaning, but it might equally assume a contestatory or parodic relation to the text by which it stood." (6)		:"The margins are not consistently a site of subversion, consolidation, or containment, to invoke the rather limited possibilities offered by current historically oriented Renaissance debates. Rather, I argue that the margins and the text proper were in shifting relationships of authority; the margin might affirm, summarize, underwrite the main text block and thus tend to stabilize meaning, but it might equally assume a contestatory or parodic relation to the text by which it stood." (6)

	'''Bible'''		'''Bible'''

Wtrettien: moved Tribble 2003 to Tribble 1993

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	:Tribble, Evelyn B. ''Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England.'' Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, ~~2003~~.		:Tribble, Evelyn B. ''Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England.'' Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

	== Introduction: Whose Text? ==		== Introduction: Whose Text? ==

Wtrettien: /* Beyond the Bounds: Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and the Margins of Humanism */

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Beyond the Bounds: Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and the Margins of Humanism

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	== Beyond the Bounds: Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and the Margins of Humanism ==		== Beyond the Bounds: Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and the Margins of Humanism ==

			:"The Marprelate controversy brings into sharp focus the power of the press to proliferate rather than contain." (102)

			:"The humanist page provides a frame for the text which can establish the limits of interpretation or at least, as in the case of Spenser, set up interpretive boundaries. In contrast, the Marprelate controversy and the pamphlets written by Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey that recapitulate it apparently invert the ability of the page to order and contain." (102)

			author of Marprelate pamphlets "parodies the conventions of the page, seemingly subverting them -- as well as the normal codes governing discourse -- in order to draw attention to the need for the reform of church government" (102)

			Marprelate pamphlets "represent the eruption in print of a more radical strain of dissent" (104)

			:"Martin speaks fro mthe margins, paradoxically as a means of claiming the main text as his territory." (110)

			Bacon -- "objects to enlisting the university wits on the side of the prelacy" (120); wants to see "deformed" manner of writing ceased

			:"This is in essence an argument about locatability, fixity. Bacon attempts to position decorum absolutely, fixing it inseparably to the majesty of religion. In contrast, the decorum of Martin and the pamphleteers is floating, attaching itself alternatively to the 'times,' to the gravity of religious discourse, to the stupidity of one's opponents. The territory of margin and center, major and minor, is continually claimed and reclaimed, and the authority to speak is continually in flux." (122)

			== Genius on the Rack: Authorities and the Margin in Ben Jonson's Glossed Works ==

			see 141; Jonson on body and soul of text/book

			:"To read a glossed masque is constantly to decide which narrative to follow. The keys in the masque text continually demand that attention be paid to the margins, and the annotations continually intrude into the text proper, vying for the reader's attention." (144)

			poor reception of performed play; controls its reception in print
			* Globe becomes a hell; "the physical space of the theater becomes a place of confinement and torture where the ignorant public is damned. In contrast, the printed book becomes a form of freedom, a way of creating oneself free from the contingency of the theater." (150)

			:"The page, with its battery of marginal notes and Latin citations surrounding the writer with the marks of external authorities, inevitably calls attention to the writers' indebtedness, his reliance on the past. The use of the plural authorities of the page is finally at odds with, although still embedded within, a unified book/self, which constructs a typographical unity for a diverse, contingent career." (157)

			== Conclusion: Voices on the Page ==

			Cervantes, irony of lending authority by surrounding oneself with marginalia

			:"Surrounding oneself on the page with bits and pieces of classical learning has become a transparent and facile means of conferring an authority upon profane works" (159)

Wtrettien: /* Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington */

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	* gloss as "verbal speed bump" (73)		* gloss as "verbal speed bump" (73)
	* "general strategy of evasion and indirection in the notes and arguments" (86)		* "general strategy of evasion and indirection in the notes and arguments" (86)
			* "the potential of the gloss for duplicity permits its use as a '''protectionary device'''" (86)

			:"The gloss is situated (literally and figuratively) to both say and not say, to suggest and deny simultaneously. The gloss to ''The Shepheardes Calendar'' is not merely a formal imitation of the humanist edition; rather, verse and gloss together comprise a complex strategy of indirection which both enables and protects the new poet. The idea of a circle, with all its implications of closure and self-containment, naturally holds great appeal for so radically contingent a being as the Elizabethan author. The book, conceived as a physical artifact, itself creates an illusion both of self-creation -- the author constitutes both himself and his reception typographically -- and boundedness, safety." (87)

			Harington
			* "While Spenser's gloss positions the reader uneasily between icnlusion and exclusion, Harington's commentary represents his circle as preexisting, extraordinarily intimate, and closed -- like the elaborate book itself, this community presents itself as an object to be admired." (87)
			* wants to present "an English courtly circle which consistently surpasses its Italian counterpart" (96)

			Harington highly involved in visual design/layout of book (88)

			:"What is striking in the premodern book is the dense population of the page; upon its surface is displayed the social and collaborative nature of literary production. Surrounding the writer are members of literary and social circles, buffering him from the anonymous impersonal marketplace. Readers are imagined as a larger version of this circle, hovering on the outskirts, privy to some confidences and left out of others." (100)

			== Beyond the Bounds: Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and the Margins of Humanism ==

Wtrettien: /* Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington */

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	commentaries on Horace -- "such pages exfoliate, extending outwards to include everything, seemingly all available commentary on Horace. The effect is not to differentiate but to repeat and reaffirm." (61)		commentaries on Horace -- "such pages exfoliate, extending outwards to include everything, seemingly all available commentary on Horace. The effect is not to differentiate but to repeat and reaffirm." (61)

	Aldus -- clean editions; "attempt to clean away medieval accretions of commentary and return to the pure source' (63)		Aldus -- clean editions; "attempt to clean away medieval accretions of commentary and return to the pure source" (63)
			* concern with editing and textual transmission
			* "The printer thus has deployed typographical resources to construct a page which represents differences and makes distinctions." (66)
			* "increased presence of the editor in shaping the text" (67)

			authors not autonomous speaking subjects; "attention to the page relocates these writers in early attempts to construct literary authority, to forge a readership in a period poised between personal face-to-face ties and the impersonal marketplace" (68)

			Spenser, Shepheardes Calendar -- annotations by "E.K." --
			* "provide a carefully selective and highly strategic fictional construction of circulation and reception. On the one hand, the apparatus claims to complete the text; on the other, it produces its incompleteness, positioning a reader with both perfect and imperfect knowledge of the text." (73)
			* gloss as "verbal speed bump" (73)
			* "general strategy of evasion and indirection in the notes and arguments" (86)

Wtrettien: /* Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington */

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	== Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington ==		== Literary Author(ite)s and the Humanist Page: Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, and Sir John Harington ==

			:"This study ponits toward three shifts in the history of reading: from meieval protocols of reading which figure the text and authorities as more or less seamless; to emergent humanist differentiations and hierarchizations of author, auctor, editor, and reader; and, finally, to the ways in which these new means of constructing authority were appropriated by vernacular writers seeking to invent a model or readership." (58)

			commentaries on Horace -- "such pages exfoliate, extending outwards to include everything, seemingly all available commentary on Horace. The effect is not to differentiate but to repeat and reaffirm." (61)

			Aldus -- clean editions; "attempt to clean away medieval accretions of commentary and return to the pure source' (63)