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

Chartier, Roger.

Forms and Meanings : Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (140 pages) - New Cultural Studies . - New Cultural Studies .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Representations of the Written Word -- Chapter 2: Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication -- Chapter 3: From Court Festivity to City Spectators -- Chapter 4: Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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.

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Written communication-History.
Transmission of texts.
Authors and patrons.
Literature and society.
Books and reading.
Literary patrons.


Electronic books.

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