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Inscription And Erasure : Literature And Written Culture From The Eleventh To The Eighteenth Century

Titles
- Inscrire Et Effacer. English
- Inscription & Erasure
- Material Texts
Attribution
Roger Chartier ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Publication Details
Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) P211 .C48313 2007 AVAILABLE
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Description
indeed, much was written on surfaces that allowed one to write, erase, then write again. Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing and publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Chartier, Roger, 1945-
Subject
Notes
- Originally published: Paris : Gallimard ; Le Seuil, 2005 under title: Inscrire et effacer : culture crite et littrature (XIe-XVIIIe sicle)
ISBN
- 9780812239959
- 0812239954
LCCN
- 2006051419
Open Library ID
- /b/OL11345589M