The idea of the book and the creation of literature / Stephen Orgel. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgel, Stephen, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book is about the intersection of literary history with the history of the book. Books have been, for several millennia, the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were composed to be recited, and only written down centuries later. Much of the most famous poetry of the English Renaissance was composed to circulate in manuscript among a small social circle. Plays began as scripts for performance. What happens to a play when it becomes a book, to a collection of poems circulated among friends when it becomes a volume of sonnets? How do essays, plays, poems, stories, become Works? How is an author imagined?

Contents:

List of Illustrations

A Note on Quotations

1. Introduction

2. Some Plays

3. Some Works: The Jonson and Shakespeare Folios

4. Poetry and Drama

5. How To Be a Poet

6. What Is a Book?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on October 17, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Orgel, Stephen The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature

ISBN:

0-19-196778-5

0-19-269939-3

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780192871534.001.0001 DOI