Articulating the Author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex
* Ardis Butterfield
* The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 33, Medieval and Early Modern Miscellanies and Anthologies (20... more
* Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association
In considering the boundaries of the Confessio, layout is crucial. The form of the work has a physical as well as abstract existence. The disposition of text on the page, its arrangement into sections, the use of headings, rubrication, and initials to create a hierarchy of meaning all contributes to indeed helps to determine, the status of its constituent parts. For example, the reader might regard text are more authoritative if it occupied the central columns rather than appeared as marginal annotation. It is in this sense that mise en page becomes yet another means by which a concept of authorship is communicated: it is another factor that shapes the voice of authorship, and in the case of the Confession, complicates our reception of it.
In all these areas - the academic tradition of auctoritas and of the commentaries and textual devices used to analyse and present it, compilatio and the principles of vernacular translation, and the interpretative value of various elements of the page - much important work has been published. (81)
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