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Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The Romantic idea that an author created a text or even a work autonomously is transferred even to pre-modern literature today. This ignores the fact that the transmission of medieval and early modern literature creates variances that could not be justified by means of singular authorships. The present volume offers new theoretical approaches from English, German, and Scandinavian studies to provide a historically more adequate approach to the question of authorship in premodern literary cultures. Authorship is no longer equated with an extra-textual entity, but is instead considered a narratological, inner- and intertextual function that can be recognized in the retrospectively established beginnings of literature as well as in the medial transformation of texts during the early days of printing. The volume is aimed at interested scholars of all philologies, especially those dealing with the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- Authorship as a Theoretical Concept. --- Premodern Authorship. --- Premodern Literature.

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Performing Disability is a landmark examination of performance history in the medieval and early modern era. Seeking to provide a fact-based assessment of disabled performance, this survey examines the nature and socialization of disabled performers in the medieval and early Tudor periods. Using Records of Early English Drama, literary representations, and targeted histories of disability in the medieval period, this study takes a new and welcome look at the evidence for, and the conceptualization of, "impairment" as a performative act in the premodern era.It features discussions on the different societal constructions pertaining to "disability" (mental incapacity, blindness and deafness, dwarfism, gigantism, etc.), and how the evidence for such conditions was socialized through performance.Taking an evidence-based and multidisciplinary approach to perceptions of identity and "othering" in premodern society, this study is certain to appeal to a wide audience, including historians of theatre and performance, disability advocates and theorists, and social historians.

early theatre. --- premodern performance. --- tudor performance. --- DRAMA / Medieval.

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J5923 --- J5511 --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: Literature -- collections, series and anthologies -- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868) --- premodern, earliest to Edo ( -1868). --- 794-1185. --- Japanese fiction

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J5926 --- J5928 --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Edo period, Kinsei (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose by type

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J5926 --- J5928.10 --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Edo period, Kinsei (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- gesaku