| Summary: | <p style="text-align:justify;"> Scholarship on postmodern literary experiments tends to hail modes of textuality that deviate from the contemporary norm of the printed page and the codex as new and revolutionary. But such attitudes to emergent literary forms fail to recognise medieval precursors to these apparently new developments. Indeed, regarding these works as an experimental—and therefore novel—aspect of (post)modern literary production contributes to a larger trend, ultimately a function of the periodisation of literature, in which the medieval is seen as entirely Other to the modern. As a result of this conceptual break, postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality. </p>
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