Description: Further DetailsTitle: Inscription and ErasureCondition: NewSubtitle: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth CenturyISBN-10: 0812220463EAN: 9780812220469ISBN: 9780812220469Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/25/2008Description: The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction. Paradoxically, the successful spread of printing posed another danger, namely, that an uncontrollable proliferation of textual materials, of matter without order or limit, might allow useless texts to multiply and smother thought. Not everything written was destined for the archives; indeed, much was written on surfaces that allowed one to write, erase, then write again. In Inscription and Erasure, Roger Chartier seeks to demonstrate how the tension between these two concerns played out in the imaginative works of their times. Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing and publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends. The process that gave form to writing in its various modes—public or private, ephemeral or permanent—thus became the very material of literary invention. Chartier's chapters follow a thread of reading and interpretation that takes us from the twelfth-century French poet Baudri of Bourgueil, sketching out his poems on wax tablets before they are committed to parchment, through Cervantes in the seventeenth century, who places a "book of memory," in which poems and letters are to be recopied, in the path of his fictional Don Quixote.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Roger ChartierTranslator: Arthur GoldhammerContributor: Arthur Goldhammer (Translated by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Material TextsRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Inscription and Erasure
Title: Inscription and Erasure
Subtitle: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteent
ISBN-10: 0812220463
EAN: 9780812220469
ISBN: 9780812220469
Release Date: 08/25/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Arthur Goldhammer
Contributor: Arthur Goldhammer (Translated by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Inscription and Erasure : Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject: Communication Studies, General, Books & Reading
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Roger Chartier
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Material Texts
Format: Trade Paperback
