Playful letters : a study in early modern alphabetics /

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"Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics--a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boeckeler, Erika Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]
Series:Impressions (Series) (University of Iowa Press)
Subjects:
Alphabet > History.
Writing.
Alphabet > Histoire.
Écriture.
writing (processes)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Alphabets & Writing Systems.
ART > History > Renaissance.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Spelling.
Alphabet.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Body Type, Type Faces: The Human Typography of Geofroy Tory; Chapter Two. Body Language: Human Alphabets; Chapter Three. Type/Face in Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portraiture; Chapter Four."I of These Shall Wrest an Alphabet": Shakespearean Alphabetics; Chapter Five. Cyrillic Letters: Printers, Poetry, Primers, Peter I; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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