Laurie Maguire

The Rhetoric of the Page

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This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox-simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications.Each chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as &c (Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter T… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-260669-3
EAN: 9780192606693
Produktnummer: 35024619
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 243 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'392 KB
Abbildungen: 58 Illustrations

Über den Autor

Laurie Maguire is Professor of Shakespeare at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College. She is the author or co-author of ten books and fifty articles. She writes about Renaissance drama, classical reception, textual studies and medical humanities. She is a Trustee of Shakespeare's Globe. She was joint-winner of the 2014 Hoffman prize for her collaborative article with Emma Smith on Marlowe and Shakespeare.