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Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
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Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)
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In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication
during the Spanish Golden Age, "Communication, Knowledge, and
Memory in Early Modern Spain" examines how speech, visual images,
and written texts all interact as manifestations of the human
desire to know and remember. Seeking to address the reductive
opposition both between written and oral texts and between script
and print in the Early Modern period, Fernando Bouza, one of
Spain's most influential cultural historians, makes an elegant case
for the equality and complementary natures of the various modes of
communication. While the advent of printing is commonly thought to
have resulted in the demise of the manuscript, Bouza upholds that
the progress of textual culture in all its forms did not undermine
the importance of other mediums of knowledge.
The history of the book and of reading is often considered
separately from the history of the uses of writing and speech, but
according to Bouza, the boundaries between the spheres are
artificial constructions that fail to honor the realities of the
transfer of knowledge and information. While recognizing that
reading and writing belong to two distinct models of acculturation,
Bouza refuses to accept the myth that has identified rationality
and modernity with written culture only, while the languages of
images and the practices of orality are relegated to the past.
Considering the uses of text, image, and speech in social settings
ranging from the most humble to the most aristocratic, he argues
that orality is as strongly present in the world of the court as in
popular milieux, that the image was put to uses both naive and
learned, and that writing--far from a privilege ofthe
powerful--touched the lives of even the illiterate.
This original and brilliant book is bound to transform current
understandings of the intellectual practices of the Golden Age.
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