The order of books : readers, authors and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries

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The order of books : readers, authors and libraries in Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries

Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane

Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 1994

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  • : pbk

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L'ordre des livres

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Chartier, Roger, 1945- -- Ordre des livres

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Bibliography: p. [93]-113

Includes index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780745610986

Description

In "The Order of Books", Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labour: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations which transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.

Table of Contents

  • Communities of readers
  • figures of the author
  • libraries without walls.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780745612720

Description

In "The Order of Books", Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labour: the basic principle of referring to texts, the dream of a universal library, real or imaginary, containing all the works ever written, and the emergence of a new definition of the book leading to some of the innovations which transformed the relationship of the reader to the text.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Communities of Readers 2. Figures of the Author 3. Libraries Without Walls.

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