Forms and Meanings : Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer.
Title:
Forms and Meanings : Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer.
Author:
Chartier, Roger.
ISBN:
9780812200362
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (140 pages)
Series:
New Cultural Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Representations of the Written Word -- Chapter 2: Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication -- Chapter 3: From Court Festivity to City Spectators -- Chapter 4: Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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