Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe - Softcover

Chartier, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745656021 ISBN 13: 9780745656021

Verlag: Polity Press, 2013

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Críticas:

In these essays on the linguistic, typographical, social and cultural contexts of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes (among others), Roger Chartier shows once again his remarkable gifts for close reading, original observations, and the judicious and fruitful use of sociocultural theory. Peter Burke, University of Cambridge These brilliant essays, by the world's foremost historian of the book, are an essential guide to the textual labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a perplexing maze in which manuscripts, printed books, and digital media vie for attention. By looking with singular learning and insight at early modern texts -- above all, works by Shakespeare and Cervantes -- Chartier enables us to understand not only the written traces that have been left by the past but also the traces that we will leave for the future. Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University

Reseña del editor:

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author's or translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's hand cannot be separated from the printers' mind.

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• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0745656021
• ISBN 13: 9780745656021
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248