The rhetoric of the page / Laurie Maguire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maguire, Laurie E., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Printing--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Printing.

Graphic design (Typography)--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Graphic design (Typography).

Layout (Printing)--History--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Layout (Printing).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This text explores blank space in early modern printed books; it addresses physical blank space (from missing words to vacant pages) as well as the concept of the blank. It is a book about typographical marks, readerly response, and editorial treatment. It is a story of the journey from incunabula to Google books, told through the signifiers of blank space: empty brackets, dashes, the et cetera, the asterisk. It is about the semiotics of print and about the social anthropology of reading. The work explores blank space as an extension of Elizabethan rhetoric with readers learning to interpret the mise-en-page as part of a text's persuasive tactics.

Contents:

'This Page Intentionally Left Blank'; or, the apophatic page

Et cetera/etcetera/ETC; or, the aposiopetic page

The asterisk; or, the gnomic page.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260669-7

0-19-189480-X

0-19-260668-9