Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843842394 ISBN 13 : 9781843842392

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2010

Synopsis

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and materialapproaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and receptionacross time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed focus on individual cases can yield important new findings.

Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick, Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

CURRENT: Elaine Treharne, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, Director of the Centre for Spatial and Textual Analysis, and Director of Stanford Technologies at Stanford University. PREVIOUS: Elaine Treharne, University of Manchester, University of Liverpool, Princeton University

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843842394
• ISBN 13: 9781843842392
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Da Rold Orietta, Treharne Elaine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible