Reading by Design : The visual interfaces of the english renaissance book
Pauline Reid
Bok Engelsk 2019
| Utgitt | Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2019
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| Omfang | xv, 283 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium, a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books' design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text.. - Har bibliografi
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| ISBN | 978-1-487-50069-6(innbundet) : Nkr 500.00
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