Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book / Pauline Reid.

• "Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium--a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Investigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid argues that the visual crisis that suffuses early modern English thought also imbricates sixteenth and seventeenth century print materials. These vision troubles in turn influenced how early modern books and readers interacted. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books' design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, Reading by Design articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight."-- 

Ämnesord

Tidigt tryckta böcker  (sao)

Visuell perception  (sao)

Renässansen  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Books and reading  -- England -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Books and reading  -- England -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Early printed books  -- England -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Early printed books  -- England -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Literature publishing  -- England -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Literature publishing  -- England -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Visual perception  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Visual perception  -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

English literature  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Böcker och läsning  -- historia (sao)

Bokutgivning  -- historia (sao)

Early printed books  (LCSH)

Visual perception  (LCSH)

Renaissance  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  -- England (sao)

1500-talet  (sao)

1600-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

002.094209031 (DDC)

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