Renaissance Paratexts (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Smith, Helen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gerard 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139124355
• Artikelnr.: 52967790

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Helen Smith and Louise Wilson; Part I. Orders of the Book: 1.
'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe': reading early modern imprints Helen
Smith; 2. 'Intended to offenders': the running titles of early modern books
Matthew Day; 3. Changed opinion as to flowers Juliet Fleming; 4. The
beginning of 'The End': terminal paratext and the birth of print culture
William H. Sherman; Part II. Making Readers: 5. Editorial pledges in early
modern dramatic paratexts Sonia Massai; 6. Status anxiety and English
Renaissance translation Neil Rhodes; 7. Playful paratexts: the front matter
of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations Louise Wilson; 8.
'Signifying, but not sounding': gender and paratext in the complaint genre
Danielle Clarke; Part III. Books and Users: 9. Unannotating Spenser Jason
Scott-Warren; 10. Reading the home: the case of The English Housewife Wendy
Wall; 11. Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the
Songe de Poliphile Hester Lees-Jeffries; Afterword Peter Stallybrass;
Select bibliography.