ENGLISH

Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality

By Graham Allen , Mary O'Connell , Carrie Griffin

Book information

Publisher
Pickering & Chatto Ltd
Year
2011
ISBN
184893159X, 9781848931596
Google Books ID
ux6vcQAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1976919 bytes)
Series
The History of the Book
Pages
239\239
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The twelve essays in this edited collection variously examine ways in which the material text helps to direct the reader and shape the experience of the audience. The essays consider texts from later medieval England through to the twenty-first century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto - affects the experience of the person reading it. Essays discuss early readers of manuscripts, digital technology, materiality and meaning, and book and textual cultures. Specific case-studies focus on the authorship of Frankenstein, the impact of the 1969 Penguin edition of Ulysses, the creation of P B Shelley's reading public and the physical incarnations of W B Yeats' poetry.

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