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Article: The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2007
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The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers. Ed. by JILL MANN and MAURA NOLAN. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xvi+296 pp. $37. ISBN 978-o-268-03496-2.
This is a collection of eight essays which positions itself within the broad discipline of book history. In this context, the title calls to mind Stanley Fish's concept of interpretative communities, although the community defined in the introduction does not provide a model for reader response alone but is broadly understood as the wider network of all those involved in both the production and reception of texts.
As a text itself, the volume ...