English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475–1525 by David, R. Carlson (review)

The staging is disingenuous. The questions have been long answered, the either/or logic of their formulation repeatedly discredited. Internal contradictions persist. Though supportive of the Jain concept of the “simultaneity of yes and no” in terms of narrative method and philosoph­ ical vision, Herz arranges supernatural and realistic modes hierarchically in the epilogue: the ghost story is a “trace text,” a “shadow text” in relation to the …