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Coleman, Joyce Kit was born on November 12, 1949 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Alexander and Harriet (Yanover) Coleman.
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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
(For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief...)
For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief that late medieval authors - particularly in England and especially Chaucer - wrote for private readers. This book challenges that view and current orthodoxies in orality-literacy theory. It assembles and analyses in depth, for the first time, an overwhelming mass of evidence that in both Britain and France from the mid-fourteenth to the late-fifteenth century, literate, elite audiences continued to prefer public reading (aloud in groups) to private reading. This book offers the first sustained critique of Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy (1982), which has encouraged medievalists to underestimate the nature and role of late medieval public reading. Using an 'ethnographic' methodology, Joyce Coleman develops several schema from the data and applies them in analyses of texts including historical records, works by Chaucer and other writings into the late-fifteenth century.
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Joyce Kit Coleman
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Education
Bachelor, Barnard College, 1971. Master of Arts, University Texas, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993.
Career
Proofreader Service Typesetters, Austin, Texas, 1976-1977. Proofreader, production assistant University Texas Press, 1977-1979. Freelance copy editor, Austin and Berkeley, California, 1979-1983.
Copy editor Boston Magazine, 1983-1984. Staff editor Boston Business Journal, 1984-1985. Managing editor American Society Law and Medicine, Boston, 1985-1988.
Associate professor English literature University North Dakota, Grand Forks, since 1994.
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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
(For a long time scholars have generally shared the belief...)
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Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
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Member Modern Language Association, Early Book Society, International Courtly Literature Society, Medieval Academy American, New Chaucer Society.
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American
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1971
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1979
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1993
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1976 - 1977
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1983 - 1984
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1984 - 1985
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1985 - 1988
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1994