Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century

by Roger Chartier

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The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction. Paradoxically, the successful spread of printing posed another danger, namely, that an uncontrollable proliferation of textual materials,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812220463

ISBN13:9780812220469

Release Date:August 2008

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Books & Reading Criticism & Theory Education & Reference General History & Criticism Humanities Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature

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