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

Armstrong, Adrian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198159897 ISBN 13 : 9780198159896

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Adrian Armstrong is Lecturer in French, University of Manchester

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198159897
• ISBN 13: 9780198159896
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible