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Authorizing words : speech, writing, and print in the English Renaissance /

Martin Elsky here illuminates the complex interplay of linguistic theory and textual representation in English Renaissance writing. Drawing on a wide range of materials, both literary and nonliterary, Elsky focuses on the impact of speech-oriented and writing-dominated theories of language on textua...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elsky, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1989.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Scholastic Logic and Grammar: The Inescapability of Speech
  • 2. The Humanists: The Primacy of Speech
  • 3. Elyot, As cham, Jonson, and the Frailty of Speech
  • 4. Space and Textuality: Writing and Speech in the Idea of the Text
  • 5. The Space of the Hieroglyph: George Herbert and Francis Bacon
  • 6. Print and Manuscript: Bacon's Early Career and the Occasions of Writing
  • 7. The Authority of Democritus junior
  • Index