Wendy Scase

List of John Benjamins publications in which Wendy Scase is involved.

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Scase, Wendy 2020 Chapter 4. Threshold-switching: Paratextual functions of scribal colophons in Old and Middle English manuscripts The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 91–114 | Chapter

This chapter offers a new, material analysis of medieval scribal colophons, the brief writings that scribes added to manuscript texts. Gérard Genette saw the scribal colophon as the ancestor of ‘paratext’, the ‘threshold’ (‘seuil’) to the printed text. Contributing to current modification of… read more