Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer

Roger Chartier

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1995

Forms and Meanings

Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer

Roger Chartier

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200362

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About this book

In Forms and Meanings, Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to Guttenberg bible and beyond.

Author / Editor information

Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, including inventories of the costumes, program notes, and contemporary correspondence, Chartier provides a wonderfully rich account of what the performances meant."—Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Representations of the Written Word Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
2. Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. From Court Festivity to City Spectators Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Popular Appropriations: The Readers and Their Books Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: Literature; Library Science and Publishing; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: August 3, 2010
ISBN: 9780812200362