Overview

Most readers think of a written work as producing its meaning through the words it contains. But what is the significance of the detailed and beautiful illuminations on a medieval manuscript? Of the deliberately chosen typefaces in a book of poems by Yeats? Of the design and layout of text in an electronic format? How does the material form of a work shape its understanding in a particular historical moment, in a particular culture? The material features of texts as physical artifacts--their """"bibliographic codes"""" --have over the last decade excited increasing interest in a variety of disciplines. The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture gathers essays by an extraordinarily distinguished group of scholars to offer the most comprehensive examination of these issues yet, drawing on examples from literature, history, the fine arts, and philosophy. Fittingly, the volume contains over two dozen illustrations that display the iconic features of the works analyzed--from Alfred the Great's Boethius through medieval manuscripts to the philosophy of C. S. Peirce and the dustjackets on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Styron. The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture will be groundbreaking reading for scholars in a wide range of fields. George Bornstein is C. A. Patrides Professor of English, University of Michigan. Theresa Tinkle is Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan.

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Author:   George Bornstein ,  Theresa Lynn Tinkle ,  George Bornstein ,  Theresa Lynn Tinkle
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780472108657

ISBN 10:   0472108654
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 April 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction / George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle -- Alfred the Great's burn Boethius / Kevin Kiernan -- Sensations of the page : imaging technologies an medieval illuminated manuscripts / Michael Camille -- The wife of Bath's textual/sexual lives / Theresa Tinkle -- Icons among iconoclasts in the renaissance / Rudi Paul Lindner -- The peopled page: polemic, confutation, a Foxe's book of martyrs / Evelyn B. Tribble -- Rossetti's iconic page / Jerom J. McGann -- The faces of Victorian fiction / Peter Shillingsburg -- Iconic indeterminacy and human creativity in C. S. Peirce's manuscripts / Mary Keel -- Corporealizations of Dickinson and interpretive machines / Martha Nell Sm -- Yeats and textual reincarnation : """"When you are old"""" and """"September1913"""" George Bornstein -- The open space of the draft page : James Joyce and moder manuscripts / Daniel Ferrer -- The iconic dust jacket : Fitzgerald and Styro James L. W. West III."

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