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

by Roger Chartier

Overview

In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in which a text is transmitted not only constrains the production of meaning but defines and constructs its audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812215465
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/1995
Series:	New Cultural Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Ch. 1. Representations of the Written Word
Ch. 2. Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication
Ch. 3. From Court Festivity to City Spectators
Ch. 4. Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, including inventories of the costumes, program notes, and contemporary correspondence, Chartier provides a wonderfully rich account of what the performances meant."

New York Review of Books Robert Darnton

A collection of four studies (three of which were given as the 1994 U. of Pennsylvania Rosenbach Lectures), each addressing how the forms that transmit text to readers or hearers constrain the production of meaning. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, including inventories of the costumes, program notes, and contemporary correspondence, Chartier provides a wonderfully rich account of what the performances meant."—Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books

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