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Words That Matter - by Judith H Anderson (Hardcover)

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  • The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation.
  • About the Author: Judith H. Anderson is Professor of English at Indiana University.
  • 352 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, European

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About the Book



The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources--treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons--the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.



Book Synopsis



The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Among these was a heightened awareness of the equivocal "thingness" of language, whether verbal units like proverbs, inscriptions, and biblical quotations or individuated words such as lexical entries, Latin tags, and verbal icons. The author shows how the new or newly important technologies of printing and lexicography contributed substantially to this awareness.

As symptom and cause these technologies participated in a growing cultural emphasis on externalized expression and on the material world. Both perceptually and materially they engaged the contemporary epistemological shift from essence to meaning and from referential object to word.



From the Back Cover



"An extraordinary achievement that should have an enduring impact on future historical, literary, cultural, and technological studies of the early modern period and the English Renaissance in particular."--Harry Berger, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz



About the Author



Judith H. Anderson is Professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart England and The Growth of a Personal Voice: "Piers Plowman" and "The Faerie Queene."
Dimensions (Overall): 8.7 Inches (H) x 5.8 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: European
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Hardcover
Author: Judith H Anderson
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 1996
TCIN: 91221131
UPC: 9780804726313
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-7576
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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