Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature - Couverture rigide

Aresu, Francesco Marco

 
9780268206482: Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0268206481 ISBN 13 : 9780268206482
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2023

Synopsis

Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve.

This original study is both an investigation into the material foundations of literature and a reflection on notions of textuality, writing, and media in late medieval and early modern Italy. Francesco Marco Aresu examines the book-objects of manuscripts and early printed editions, asking questions about the material conditions of production, circulation, and reception of literary works. He invites scholars to reconcile reading with seeing (and with touching) and to challenge contemporary presumptions about technological neutrality and the modes of interfacing and reading. Manuscript Poetics investigates the correspondences between textuality and materiality, content and medium, and visual-verbal messages and their physical support through readings of Dante Alighieri's Vita nova, Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida, and Francesco Petrarca's canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta). Aresu shows that Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarca evaluated and deployed the tools of scribal culture to shape, signal, or layer meanings beyond those they conveyed in their written texts. Medieval texts, Aresu argues, are uniquely positioned to provide this perspective, and they are foundational to the theoretical understanding of new forms and materials in our media-saturated contemporary world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Francesco Marco Aresu is an assistant professor of Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268206481
ISBN 13 
9780268206482
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
528
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  026820649X ISBN 13 :  9780268206499
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2023
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