Renaissance paratexts

"In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The e...

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Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Helen (HerausgeberIn), Wilson, Louise (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge University Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:"In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 264 - 267
Beschreibung:XIII, 274 S.
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23 cm
ISBN:9780521117395
978-0-521-11739-5
0521117399
0-521-11739-9