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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature (Hardcover)
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the
intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For
several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of
knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of
knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be
books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were
composed to be recited, and only written down centuries later. Much
of the most famous poetry of the English Renaissance was composed
in manuscript form to circulate among a small social circle. Plays
began as scripts for performance. What happens to a play when it
becomes a book, or to a collection of poems circulated among
friends when it becomes a volume of sonnets? How do essays, plays,
poems, stories, become Works? How is an author imagined? In this
new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen
Orgel addresses such questions and considers the idea of the book
not simply as a container for written work, but as an essential
element in its creation.
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