Inscription and erasure : literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century...
Inscription and erasure : literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century...
Inscription and erasure : literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century / Roger Chartier ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
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N302.2244/ 55
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xiii, 203 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : aesthetic mystery and the materialities of the written -- 1. Wax and parchment : the poems of Baudri de Bourgueil -- 2. Writing and memory : Cardenio's Librillo -- 3. The press and fonts : Don Quixote in the print shop -- 4. Handwritten newsletters, printed gazettes : cymbal and butte...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
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Pennsylvania
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c2007.
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"In Inscription and Erasure, Roger Chartier seeks to demonstrate how the tension between these two concerns played out in the imaginative works of their times. Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing and publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends."--BOOK JACKET....
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Inscription and erasure : literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century / Roger Chartier ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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Originally published: Paris : Gallimard ; Le Seuil, 2005 under title: Inscrire et effacer : culture écrite et littérature (XIe-XVIIIe siècle).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-191) and index.
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c2007.
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N302.2244/ 55
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0812239954 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812239959 (cloth : alk. paper)
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302.224409
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991022778399702626
