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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roger Chartier , Arthur GoldhammerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780812220469ISBN 10: 0812220463 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 25 August 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Aesthetic Mystery and the Materialities of the Written Chapter One. Wax and Parchment: The Poems of Baudri de Bourgueil Chapter Two. Writing and Memory: Cardenio's Librillo Chapter Three. The Press and Fonts: Don Quixote in the Print Shop Chapter Four. Handwritten Newsletters, Printed Gazettes: Cymbal and Butter Chapter Five. Talking Books and Clandestine Manuscripts: The Travels of Dyrcona Chapter Six. Text and Fabric: Anzoletto and Philomela Chapter Seven. Commerce in the Novel: Damilaville's Tears and the Impatient Reader Epilogue: Diderot and His Pirates Notes IndexReviewsThis elegant and learned study constitutes a significant addition to Roger Chartier's well-known work on the history of the book in western culture. -Timothy Hampton, H-France Review Chartier unites literary analysis with material history to reveal how representations survive... The book takes up subjects from the eleventh-century French abbot Baudri de Bourgueil to the eighteenth-century encyclopedist Denis Diderot... Chartier's singular achievement is to claim authority over a wide range of practices and to focus on their common anxieties and ambitions. -SHARP News Any progress achieved within a humanistic discipline that crosses boundaries to neighboring fields has the potential both to find unexplored objects of study and to raise new questions. Inscription and Erasure disputes the long-standing division between the interpretation of texts and the description of the material supports and socio-historical environments in which texts appeared and circulated. -MLN This elegant and learned study constitutes a significant addition to Roger Chartier's well-known work on the history of the book in western culture. -Timothy Hampton, H-France Review Chartier unites literary analysis with material history to reveal how representations survive... The book takes up subjects from the eleventh-century French abbot Baudri de Bourgueil to the eighteenth-century encyclopedist Denis Diderot... Chartier's singular achievement is to claim authority over a wide range of practices and to focus on their common anxieties and ambitions. -SHARP News Any progress achieved within a humanistic discipline that crosses boundaries to neighboring fields has the potential both to find unexplored objects of study and to raise new questions. Inscription and Erasure disputes the long-standing division between the interpretation of texts and the description of the material supports and socio-historical environments in which texts appeared and circulated. -MLN Author InformationRoger Chartier is Directeur d'etudes at the ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, Professeur in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Arthur Goldhammer has translated more than ninety works from the French. He is an affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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