Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and Poetics in France 1470-1550 (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

Armstrong, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0198159897 / ISBN 13: 9780198159896

Editore: Clarendon Press, 2000

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Pencil marking, including underlining and marginalia, throughout copy. Dust jacket intact. This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized. Codice articolo mon0000242090

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Titolo: Technique and Technology: Script, Print, and...

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2000

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Acceptable

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Riassunto:

Literary studies cannot neglect the study of books, the physical objects through which literary texts are transmitted. Book form is especially relevant to the literature of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the crucial shift from manuscript to print in Western Europe. This book examines manuscripts and printed editions of three major French writers of this key period: Jean Molinet, Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jean Bouchet. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. The development of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomes dominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Adrian Armstrong is Lecturer in French, University of Manchester