Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 - Softcover

Barker, Nicolas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847772129 ISBN 13: 9781847772121

Verlag: Lives and Letters, 2016

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Reseña del editor

In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancients Near East through the development of alphabetic scripts, the traditions of Medieval European manuscripts, the shift from script to print, all the way to the innovations and experiments of the modernist period. Stephane Mallarme's typographically exploded poem Un coup de des n'abolira pas le hasard, Barker writes, 'takes the problem that has haunted poets and their audiences over four thousand years to a logical conclusion: that is, how the evanescent iridescent idea in the poet's mind is to be registered in graphic form - what, in short, is the art of poetry?' Illustrated throughout with photographs of the texts and books under discussion, Visible Voices offers a rich, authoritative account of the changing face of poetry through the ages.

Biografía del autor

NICOLAS BARKER grew up in Cambridge, surrounded by books. He started printing them at fourteen, then went into publishing, becoming editor of The Book Collector, and in 1976 first Head of Conservation of the British Library. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has written or edited thirty books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lives and Letters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1847772129
• ISBN 13: 9781847772121
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191