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The Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) (Paperback)
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The Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) (Paperback)
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Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was
perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," the
cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that reproduction drains the
image of its aura, by which he means the authority that a work of
art obtains from its singularity and its embeddedness in a
particular context. The central question in The Aura of the Word in
the Early Age of Print (1450-1600) is whether the dissemination of
text through print had a similar effect on the status of the word
in the early modern period. In this volume, contributors from a
variety of fields look at manifestations of the early modern word
(in English, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Yiddish) as entities
whose significance derived not simply from their semantic meaning
but also from their relationship to their material support, to the
physical context in which they are located and to the act of
writing itself. Rather than viewing printed text as functional and
lacking in materiality, contributors focus on how the placement of
a text could affect its meaning and significance. The essays also
consider the continued vitality of pre-printing-press kinds of text
such as the illuminated manuscript; and how new practices, such as
the veneration of handwriting, sprung up in the wake of the
invention of movable type.
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