Richardson Jennifer C. (Joseph Cowen Professor Of English Literature Newcastle University)
Richardson Jennifer C. (Joseph Cowen Professor Of English Literature Newcastle University) - Voices And Books In The English Renaissance A New History Of Reading - Hardcover
Richardson Jennifer C. (Joseph Cowen Professor Of English Literature Newcastle University) - Voices And Books In The English Renaissance A New History Of Reading - Hardcover
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Description: Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice - or performance - aware silent reader rather than the historical reader who is invariably male silent and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral - aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice - - and tones of voice especially - - from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others voices as well as manage and exploit their readers voices. The volume offers fresh readings of key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers including Anne Askew William Baldwin and Thomas Nashe. It rethinks what a printed book can be by searching the printed page for vocal cues and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process. Renaissance printed books have often been misheard and a preoccupation with their materiality has led to a focus on them as objects. However Renaissance printed books are alive with possible voices but we will not understand this while we focus on the silent reader.
Title: Voices And Books In The English Renaissance A New History Of Reading
Author(s): Richardson Jennifer C. (Joseph Cowen Professor Of English Literature Newcastle University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198809067
Pages: 348 Pages, 24 Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/24/2019
Category: Oral History
Description: Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice - or performance - aware silent reader rather than the historical reader who is invariably male silent and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral - aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice - - and tones of voice especially - - from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others voices as well as manage and exploit their readers voices. The volume offers fresh readings of key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers including Anne Askew William Baldwin and Thomas Nashe. It rethinks what a printed book can be by searching the printed page for vocal cues and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process. Renaissance printed books have often been misheard and a preoccupation with their materiality has led to a focus on them as objects. However Renaissance printed books are alive with possible voices but we will not understand this while we focus on the silent reader.
Title: Voices And Books In The English Renaissance A New History Of Reading
Author(s): Richardson Jennifer C. (Joseph Cowen Professor Of English Literature Newcastle University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198809067
Pages: 348 Pages, 24 Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/24/2019
Category: Oral History
