Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:614 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319968988

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Teknik: allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Sheila J. Nayar is Professor of English, Communication, and Media Studies at Greensboro College, USA. She is the author of three previous books, including Dante’s Sacred Poem, and has published widely on the intersections of narrative, technology, and phenomenology, including in JAAR, PMLA, and Studies in Philology.

Innehållsförteckning

1. From Petrarch to Bacon, Technécology Style: Introduction.- I. The Comedy of Errata.- 2. From Print Error to Human Errancy in Print.- 3. The Literary Erotics of Print and Misprint.- II. Arms or the Man.- 4. The Golden Age of Chivalry in the Iron Age of Gunpowder.- 5. Plebeian Presence in the Age of Gunpowder.- III. Plus Ultra! Further Yet!.- 6. Renegotiating the World by Compass and Card.- 7. Space, Place, and Literary Self-Projection.- 8. Technological Inter-animation, Writ Large: Conclusion.