RT Book
T1 Sir Thomas Wyatt and the rhetoric of rewriting: 'turning the word'
T2 Oxford English Monographs
A1 Stamatakis, Chris
LA English
PP Oxford New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/686140273
AB Chris Stamatakis reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator from the literary avant-garde of early Tudor England. He discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed, manipulated, even performed - over the course of a text's production, transmission, and reception. Where previous studies have read Wyatt's poetry from a largely biographical standpoint, this book examines the reading practices of his Tudor audiences and editors, and it considers the different types of textuality shown by the manuscript collections that contain his verse. By setting Wyatt's writings in the context of sixteenth-century theories of language and literary practice, and by drawing on early Tudor educational, rhetorical, and courtierly handbooks, Stamatakis examines the rhetoric of rewriting that colours Wyatt's texts. Repeatedly, his writings invite readers to 'turn' or perform the word-to draw out something that lies inert within it. These habits of rewriting and verbal performance often serve to sustain an intimate dialogue between writers and readers in this literary culture. The book pays particular attention to the fascinating materiality of Wyatt's texts: the margins around, and the interlinear spaces within, his poems are regularly filled with new text-handwritten scrawls that are supplied by Wyatt himself or by his copyists, editors and readers. Chapters are devoted to the types of rewriting found in each of Wyatt's main genres: Plutarchian essays; forensic apologias; psalm paraphrases; letters and verse epistles, and lyrics or 'balets'. Two appendices offer further detail about patterns of manuscript transmission and the copying of Wyatt's poems. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting argues that reading often shaded into writing (and rewriting) in the early sixteenth century, and it shows how acts of apparent copying often transformed texts inventively and imaginatively.
AB Prologue : what's in a name? -- 'Torne the worde' : literary practice in the early sixteenth century -- 'This word redeme' : redemptive paraphrase in the penitential psalms -- 'For your forder aduertisement' : performative rescription in Wyatt's letters and verse epistles. Wyatt's paternal letters and material performance ; Wyatt's diplomatic letters : rewriting and performative prompts ; Wyatt's verse epistles and readerly rescription -- 'Pastyme with good companye' : balets and answer-words -- Epilogue : 'continuell chaunge' -- Appendix 1. Conspectus of manuscripts -- Appendix 2. Poems common to Egerton and other principal witnesses
NO Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index. -
CN PR2404
SN 978-0-19-964440-7
SN 0-19-964440-3
K1 Wyatt, Thomas : Sir : 1503?-1542 : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Wyatt, Thomas : Sir : 1503?-1542 : Technique
K1 Wyatt, Thomas, : Sir, 1503?-1542 : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Wyatt, Thomas, : Sir, 1503?-1542 : Technique