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. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. The development of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomes dominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.
| ISBN: | 9780198159896 |
| Publication date: | 9th March 2000 |
| Author: | Adrian Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, University of Manchester Armstrong |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 258 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: general |
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. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. The development of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomes dominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.
Technique and Technology features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: general
Technique and Technology is available in Hardback
Technique and Technology was written by Adrian Lecturer in French, Lecturer in French, University of Manchester Armstrong and published by Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Technique and Technology has 258 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs series
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