Chartier The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7139-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not thosewho bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author'sor translator's manuscript, the censors who licensed it, thepublisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copyeditor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and addedpunctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book,and the proof reader who corrected them. The author's handcannot be separated from the printers' mind.
This book is devoted to the process of publication of the worksthat framed their readers' representations of the past or ofthe world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism andbibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works - likeCervantes' Don Quixote or Shakespeare's plays -as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies thefundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of thewritten word between the invention of printing and the definition,three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chartier, Roger

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: The Past in the Present
1. Listen to the Dead with Your Eyes
2. History: Reading Time
3. History and Social Science: A Return to Braudel
Part II: What is a Book?
4. The Powers of Print
5. The Author's Hand
6. Pauses and Pitches
7. Translation
Part III: Texts and Meanings
8. Memory and Writing
9. Paratext and Preliminaries
10. Publishing Cervantes
11. Publishing Shakespeare
12. The Time of the Work

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Chartier is professor of history at the Collège deFrance, Director of Studies at the École des hautesétudes en sciences sociales and Annenberg Professor of Historyat the University of Pennsylvania.