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The prosthetic tongue : printing technology and the rise of the French language /

"The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains-from typography, orthography, and grammar, to politics, pedagogy, and poetics-over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century"--

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Chenoweth, Katie (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Collection:Material texts.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue. Originary Prints
  • Chapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings
  • Chapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print
  • Chapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules
  • Chapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography
  • Chapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue
  • Chapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People
  • Chapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500-1600
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments