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

ISBN-13: 9780198159896 / Angielski

¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

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. It analyzes presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, and demonstrates how the development of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested.

Recenzje

A model of scholarly rigous and excellence. In an elegant, limpid prose, his finely tuned case studies of codicological and printerly details set the state for innovate, often dazzling analyses of literary passages and text-image associations. This volume marks an important contribution to interdisciplinary research on late medieval and early modern book culture.

O autorze

Adrian Armstrong is Lecturer in French, University of Manchester