Reading by Design The Visual Interface of the English Renaissance Book

Reading by Design The Visual Interface of the English Renaissance Book

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscrip...

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1. Verfasser: Reid, Pauline 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019]
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Geschichte 1550-1700
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early modern literature
epistemology
history of the book
media
new materialism
phenomenology
rhetoric
visuality
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Books and reading > England > History > 16th century
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century
Early printed books > England > 16th century
Early printed books > England > 17th century
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
Literature publishing > England > 16th century
Literature publishing > England > 17th century
Visual perception > History > 16th century
Visual perception > History > 17th century
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Zusammenfassung:Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Investigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid argues that the visual crisis that suffuses early modern English thought also imbricates sixteenth and seventeenth century print materials. These vision troubles in turn influenced how early modern books and readers interacted. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books' design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, Reading by Design articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
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ISBN:9781487511623
DOI:10.3138/9781487511623

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