The Rhetoric of the Page - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198862109ISBN-10:198862105UPC:9780198862109Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Renaissance, ModernBook Topic:20th Century, 19th CenturySize:9.60 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SCSAAXKA9X
This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications. Each chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as &c (Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter Three). By looking at the early-modern page as a visual unit as well as a verbal unit, this volume shows how the relationship between textual layout and textual content is as productive for writers as it is for readers. Mise-en-page influences readers in the same way that rhetoric influences readers. It is thus possible to speak of 'the rhetoric of the page'.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198862109ISBN-10:198862105UPC:9780198862109Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Renaissance, ModernBook Topic:20th Century, 19th CenturySize:9.60 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SCSAAXKA9X
Laurie Maguire, Professor of English, Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow, Magdalen College Laurie Maguire is Professor of Shakespeare at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College. She is the author or co-author of ten books and fifty articles. She writes about Renaissance drama, classical reception, textual studies and medical humanities. She is a Trustee of Shakespeare's Globe. She was joint-winner of the 2014 Hoffman prize for her collaborative article with Emma Smith on Marlowe and Shakespeare.
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