Forms and meanings
Subtitle: texts, performances, and audiences from codex to computer
By: by Roger Chartier.
Series: New cultural studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Written communication -- History.; Transmission of texts.; Authors and patrons.; Literature and society.; Books and reading.; Literary patrons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-121) and index.
Collection of four studies, two of which have been revised for this publication with new titles, and three of which were given as the 1994 Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of contents: title: Representations of the written word; title: Princely patronage and the economy of dedication; title: From court festivity to city spectators; title: Popular appropriations : the readers and their books.