Inscription and Erasure - Literature Written Culture From Eleventh to Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Professeur in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Arthur Goldhammer has translated more than ninety works from the French. He is an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Klappentext Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic! dramatic! or narrative ends. Zusammenfassung Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic! dramatic! or narrative ends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Aesthetic Mystery and the Materialities of the Written Chapter One. Wax and Parchment: The Poems of Baudri de Bourgueil Chapter Two. Writing and Memory: Cardenio's Librillo Chapter Three. The Press and Fonts: Don Quixote in the Print Shop Chapter Four. Handwritten Newsletters, Printed Gazettes: Cymbal and Butter Chapter Five. Talking Books and Clandestine Manuscripts: The Travels of Dyrcona Chapter Six. Text and Fabric: Anzoletto and Philomela Chapter Seven. Commerce in the Novel: Damilaville's Tears and the Impatient Reader Epilogue: Diderot and His Pirates Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Roger Chartier, Roger/ Goldhammer Chartier
• Assisted by: Arthur Goldhammer (Translation)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2008
• EAN: 9780812220469
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2046-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Material Texts; Material Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)