Authorizing Words : : Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance / / Martin Elsky.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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