Forms and meanings : texts, performances, and audiences from codex to computer / by Roger Chartier

Object Details

Author

Chartier, Roger 1945-

Collection of four studies, two of which have been revised for this publication with new titles, and three of which were given as the 1994 Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.

Contents

Representations of the written word -- Princely patronage and the economy of dedication -- From court festivity to city spectators -- Popular appropriations : the readers and their books

1995

C1995

Type

Books

Physical description

128 p. ; 24 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Written communication--History

Transmission of texts

Authors and patrons

Literature and society

Books and reading

Record ID

siris_sil_485430

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0