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Renaissance Paratexts

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495844
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Paratexts written by Helen Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Renaissance Paratexts

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139114738
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Paratexts written by Helen Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating collection which explores both the material and the conceptual worlds of the early modern book.

Renaissance Paratexts

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521117395
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Paratexts written by Helen Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Companion to Renaissance Poetry

Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118585127
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Renaissance Poetry written by Catherine Bates and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520–1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres—epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. • Covers a wide selection of authors and texts • Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe • Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period.

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set

Author : Thomas Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521851848
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set written by Thomas Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition to provide fully annotated and cross-referenced transcriptions of all paratextual materials in English printed drama to 1642.

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Author : Hannah C. Tweed
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319734261
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern written by Hannah C. Tweed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships.

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642

Author : Thomas L. Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139991620
Total Pages : 2717 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 written by Thomas L. Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paratexts in early modern English playbooks – the materials to be found primarily in their preliminary pages and end matter – provide a rich source of information for scholars interested in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and the history of the book. In addition, these materials offer valuable insights into the rise of dramatic authorship in print, early modern attitudes towards theatre, notorious literary wrangles and the production of drama both on the stage and in the printing house. This unique two-volume reference is the first to include all paratextual materials in early modern English playbooks, from the emergence of print drama to the closure of the theatres in 1642. The texts have been transcribed from their original versions and presented in old-spelling. With an introduction, user's guide, multiple indices and a finding list, the editors provide a comprehensive overview of seminal texts which have never before been fully transcribed, annotated and cross-referenced.

Formal matters

Author : Allison Deutermann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111020
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Formal matters written by Allison Deutermann and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature answers this question by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. It thus represents the new English Renaissance literary historiography tying literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. The book combines studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books. Its ten studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism and popular piety, among others. Taken together, the collection’s essays exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus.

The Brand of Print

Author : Andie Silva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Brand of Print written by Andie Silva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brand of Print uses contemporary marketing theory to analyze prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts authored by early English printers, publishers, and booksellers as a unique genre, showcasing how these "print agents" developed niche markets by building relationships with readers.

Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts

Author : Giovanni Ciotti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311047753X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts written by Giovanni Ciotti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still rare in the field of manuscript studies, and the universal categories of time and space are used to create a common frame for research and comparisons. Contributions in this volume span over three continents and one millennium.

Books and Religious Devotion

Author : Allan F. Westphall
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271065125
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Books and Religious Devotion written by Allan F. Westphall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, annotation, and sharing of religious books. His surviving annotated volumes provide a revealing glimpse into the utility of books for a common reader—and they show how one remarkable, eccentric reader turned religious books into near icons. Through a careful excavation of book adaptations and enhancements, Westphall gives us insight into the range of opportunities provided by the material book for recording and communicating Connary's religious fervor. The study also investigates the broader nineteenth-century cultural setting, in which books are seen as testimonies of personal faith and come to function as instruments of social interaction in both domestic and public spheres. Underlying Connary’s many and varied interactions with books is his belief that working in books, as physical objects, can be a devout exercise instrumental in human salvation.

The Roman Paratext

Author : Laura Jansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113986761X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Paratext written by Laura Jansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting meaning, or the assumptions that underpin our own interpretation? These questions are central to the conceptual and practical concerns of the volume, which offers a synoptic study of Roman paratextuality and its exegesis within the broad sphere of Roman studies. Its contributions, which span literary, epigraphic and visual culture, focus on a wide variety of paratextual features - e.g. titles and inter-titles, prefaces, indices, inscriptions, closing statements, decorative and formalistic details - and other paratextual phenomena, such as the frames that can be plotted at various intersections of a text's formal organization.

Thresholds of Translation

Author : Marie-Alice Belle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319727729
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Thresholds of Translation written by Marie-Alice Belle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume revisits Genette’s definition of the printed book’s liminal devices, or paratexts, as ‘thresholds of interpretation’ by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660). At a time when translation played a major role in shaping English and Scottish literary culture, paratexts afforded translators and their printers a privileged space in which to advertise their activities, display their social and ideological affiliations, influence literary tastes, and fashion Britain’s representations of the cultural ‘other’. Written by an international team of scholars of translation and material culture, the ten essays in the volume examine the various material shapes, textual forms, and cultural uses of paratexts as markers (and makers) of cultural exchange in early modern Britain. The collection will be of interest to scholars of early modern translation, print, and literary culture, and, more broadly, to those studying the material and cultural aspects of text production and circulation in early modern Europe.

Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture

Author : Desrochers, Nadine
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466660031
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture written by Desrochers, Nadine and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paratext framework is now used in a variety of fields to assess, measure, analyze, and comprehend the elements that provide thresholds, allowing scholars to better understand digital objects. Researchers from many disciplines revisit paratextual theories in order to grasp what surrounds text in the digital age. Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture suggests a theoretical and practical tool for building bridges between disciplines interested in conducting joint research and exploration of digital culture. Helping scholars from different fields find an interdisciplinary framework and common language to study digital objects, this book serves as a useful reference for academics, librarians, professionals, researchers, and students, offering a collaborative outlook and perspective.

Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries

Author : John Tholen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462392
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Producing Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' in the Early Modern Low Countries written by John Tholen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of paratextual infrastructures in editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and shows how paratexts functioned as important instruments for publishers and commentators to influence readers of this ancient text.

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Author : Elspeth Jajdelska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051335
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750 written by Elspeth Jajdelska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors. Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in the way speech and print were understood had implications for changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result, authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian development did not result in imagined communities that transcended class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the cultural elites. Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) book prize 2018

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Author : Ada Palmer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967089
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance written by Ada Palmer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.