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Title The aura of the word in the early age of print (1450-1600) / edited by Jessica Buskirk and Samuel Mareel
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Walter Benjamin's Aura and Early Modern Textuality; Notes; 1 Reading Defacement? Labels, Illustration, and Intervention in the Roman de Buscalus (Paris, BnF, MS fr. 9343-9344); Buscalus, the Book, and Burgundy: Paris, BnF, MS fr. 9343-9344; Textual Tagging: Verbal Labeling in BnF 9343-9344; Completing the Picture: Iconographical Additions to the Miniatures; Visualizing Reception: Later Additions to BnF 9343-9344; Conclusion: Book, Object, Aura; Notes
The Church of Notre Dame at La Ferté as a Metaphor for the Virgin MaryWriting in Stone; Monumental Ornament; Architectural Transitions in the Early Age of Printing; Notes; 5 A Brief Message on Salvation: Minor Textual Amulets-Form, Use, Transmission; Healing Texts in a Luxurious Book of Hours: Add. MS 39638; Books and Leaflets: Material Carriers of Protective Powers; Three Minor Textual Amulets; Material Presence; Notes; 6 Jewish Concepts of the Holiness of Script in the Age of Printing: The Case of the Genizah; Introduction; Talmudic Sources
Jewish Culture and the European Invention of the Printing PressRabbinic Discussions of the Concept of Holiness in the Early Modern Era; Applying Holiness to the Walks of Life in Early Modern Jewish Culture; The Aura of the Printed Word; Notes; 7 Sermo inter absentes: Aura and Simulated Aura in Justus Lipsius's Letters and Dialogues; Introduction; Oral and Material Aura; Simulation of Aura; The Neo-Latin Letter and (Simulation of) Auratic Effects; Oral Aura; Material Aura Per Se; Simulated Material Aura; Simulation of Aura in Lipsius's Poliorcetica (1596)
Simulated Aura and Renaissance PoeticsNotes; 8 Dürer, Drawing, and Allegory; Allegory; Drawing; Printed Lines; Conclusion; Notes; 9 The Aura of the Letter: Cornelis Crul's ABC Poem in BL Sloane MS 1174 and Sixteenth-Century Views on Form and Content; Introduction; The Initials of the Spiritual ABC in Sloane MS 1174; The Co-Text of the Spiritual ABC in Sloane 1174; Sixteenth-Century Views on Form and Content; Other Versions of Crul's ABC Poem; Conclusion; Notes; 10 Literary Countermonuments of the Late Middle Ages; The Countermonument in Theory and Textual Practice
Summary "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."--Provided by publisher
Notes Villon's Testament as Countermonument
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
SUBJECT Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (Benjamin, Walter) fast
Subject Printing -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Printing -- Europe -- History -- Origin and antecedents
Writing -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Writing -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Manuscripts, European.
Writing in art.
Aura.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Book Printing & Binding.
DESIGN -- Book.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
Aura
Manuscripts, European
Printing
Printing -- Origin and antecedents
Transmission of texts
Writing
Writing in art
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mareel, Samuel
ISBN 9781351546102
1351546104
9781315087108
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9781351546089
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