The visible text : textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus / Thomas A. Bredehoft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bredehoft, Thomas A., author.

Series:

Oxford textual perspectives.

Oxford Textual Perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History.

Books.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, andfrequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar

Contents:

Cover; The Visible Text: Textual Production and Reproduction from Beowulf to Maus; Copyright; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction ; Textual media and the logic of the copy ; Text and paratext ; A first effort ; Going forward ; 1: Anglo-Saxon Textual Production ; Anglo-Saxon thinking about textual reproduction: Bede and Boniface ; Alfred and after ; The rood poems in the tenth century ; Ælfric and the reproduction of homilies ; Conclusions ; Interlude 1: Anglo-Saxon to Gothic ; 2: Gothic Textual Reproduction

Twelfth-century developments Productions and Gothic reproductions ; Producing The Canterbury Tales ; Gothic mechanical reproduction ; Chaucer's House of Fame ; Interlude 2: Gothic to Print ; 3: Typographic Print Reproduction ; The books that readers don't see ; Editions ; The facsimile ; Conclusions ; Interlude 3: Print to Comics ; 4: Comics Textual Production ; Defining comics ; Comics works are not facsimiles ; Comics works are not editions ; Typography and paratext in Ware and Spiegelman ; The hands of the authors ; Conclusions ; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Manuscript references Primary sources: editions and facsimiles ; Secondary sources ; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-960316-2

0-19-100245-3

OCLC:

887802529