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Author Elsky, Martin, author

Title Authorizing Words : Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance / Martin Elsky
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
©1990

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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
Summary Martin Elsky here illuminates the complex interplay of linguistic theory and textual representation in English Renaissance writing. Drawing on a wide range of materials, both literary and nonliterary, Elsky focuses on the impact of speech-oriented and writing-dominated theories of language on textual practice. Among the texts Elsky discusses are Herbert's The Temple, Bacon's Magna Instauratio, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jonson 's lyrics, and works by Lily, Colet, Ascham, and Elyot. In showing how speech, writing, and print suggest contrasting foundations for the authority of language, Elsky considers such topics as the competing concepts of textuality in humanist literature and in hieroglyphic poetry; the authenticity of writing and the distortions of speech in scientific prose works; the social context of printing scientific prose; and the use of print to create the infinitely expandable text of philosophical skepticism. A provocative application of contemporary literary theory to the historical analysis of texts, Authorizing Words will interest readers in such disciplines as Renaissance studies, theory of language, historical linguistics, history of science, and the history of communication
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Subject English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Humanists -- England
Language and languages -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Oral communication -- England -- History -- 17th century
Printing -- England -- History -- 17th century
Renaissance.
Written communication -- England -- History -- 17th century
Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
English language -- Early modern
English literature -- Early modern
Humanists
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Oral communication
Printing
Renaissance
Written communication
Boekdrukkunst.
Communicatie.
Engels.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis).
Letterkunde.
Renaissance.
Schrijven.
Taal.
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501745744
1501745743