Aura of the Word in the Early Age of Print (1450–1600)
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A01=Jessica Buskirk
A01=Samuel Mareel
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Author_Jessica Buskirk
Author_Samuel Mareel
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Benjamin's Aura
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Church Building
De Bruyne
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Domus Dei
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early modern literature
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Fifteenth Century Reader
Follow
Gothic Script
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Hebrew Printing
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Marginal Drawings
material
Material Aura
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Museum Plantin Moretus
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Officina Plantiniana
Omnipresent
Pater Noster
Prayer Book
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- ISBN 9780367880170
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jessica Buskirk is Instructor in visual studies at Technical University Dresden, Germany. Samuel Mareel works as an exhibition curator for the city of Mechelen and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp and is a visiting professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.
