Technique and Technology - Script, Print, and Poetics in France 1470-1550

Zusatztext A model of scholarly rigous and excellence. In an elegant, limpid prose, his finely tuned case studies of codicological and printerly details set the state for innovate, often dazzling analyses of literary passages and text-image associations. This volume marks an important contribution to interdisciplinary research on late medieval and early modern book culture. Informationen zum Autor Adrian Armstrong is Lecturer in French, University of Manchester Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Armstrong, Adrian (Lecturer in French Armstrong, Armstrong Adrian
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9780198159896
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815989-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets