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Kuskin, William.

Recursive origins : writing at the transition to modernity / William Kuskin. - Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013] - xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine language: three implications of recursion for literary history -- The poet: Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender and the construction of modernity -- The dramatic quarto: recursion in William Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI -- Form: William Caxton's Recuyell and William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida -- The edition: Assembly programs and the protocols of canonization.

ISBN: 9780268033255 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268033250 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2012050649

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Historical criticism (Literature)--England.
Literature and history--England.

LC Class. No.: PR255 / K87 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/001