Authorizing Words : Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance / Martin Elsky
1989, 1st edition. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #388085
Physical description; 23 pp. Contents; 1. Scholastic Logic and Grammar: The Inescapability of Speech -- 2. The Humanists: The Primacy of Speech -- 3. Elyot, As cham, Jonson, and the Frailty of Speech -- 4. Space and Textuality: Writing and Speech in the Idea of the Text -- 5. The Space of the Hieroglyph: George Herbert and Francis Bacon -- 6. Print and Manuscript: Bacon's Early Career and the Occasions of Writing -- 7. The Authority of Democritus junior -- Index. Subjects; English language Early modern, 1500-1700. Humanists England. Language and languages Philosophy History 17th century. Oral communication. Printing. Renaissance.
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