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Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000
Nicolas Barker
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Description for Visible Voices: Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000
Paperback. In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the history of the 'translation' of poetry from a spoken medium to a written, or printed, medium. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancients Near East through the development of alphabetic scripts, the traditions of Medieval European manuscripts, the shift from script to print, all the way to the innovations and experiments of the modernist period. Stephane Mallarme's typographically exploded poem Un coup de des n'abolira pas le hasard, Barker writes, 'takes the problem that has haunted poets and their audiences over four thousand years to ... Read more
In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the development of poetry from its ancient origin as an oral medium to its modern incarnation as a primarily written or printed artform. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancients Near East through the development of alphabetic scripts, the traditions of Medieval European manuscripts, the shift from script to print, all the way to the innovations and experiments of the modernist period. Stephane Mallarme's typographically exploded poem Un coup de des n'abolira pas le hasard, Barker writes, 'takes the problem that has haunted poets and their audiences over four thousand years to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
191
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772121
SKU
V9781847772121
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-47
About Nicolas Barker
NICOLAS BARKER grew up in Cambridge, surrounded by books. He started printing them at fourteen, then went into publishing, becoming editor of The Book Collector, and in 1976 first Head of Conservation of the British Library. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has written or edited thirty books.
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