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Playful Letters : A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics /
"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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.