Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances and Audiences from Codex to Computer (New Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

Chartier, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812233026 ISBN 13: 9780812233025

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in which a text is transmitted not only constrains the production of meaning but defines and constructs its audience.

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Review:

"Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, including inventories of the costumes, program notes, and contemporary correspondence, Chartier provides a wonderfully rich account of what the performances meant."—Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books

About the Author:

Roger Chartier is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0812233026
• ISBN 13: 9780812233025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144