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In "Forms and Meanings," Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to Guttenberg bible and beyond.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch. 1. Representations of the Written Word

Ch. 2. Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication

Ch. 3. From Court Festivity to City Spectators

Ch. 4. Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Summary

In Forms and Meanings, Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to Guttenberg bible and beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Chartier
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1995
• EAN: 9780812215465
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1546-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: New Cultural Studies; New Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy