The rhetoric of the page / Laurie Maguire.

First edition.

9780191894800 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.

Z4.3

002.09

This text explores blank space in early modern printed books; it addresses physical blank space (from missing words to vacant pages) as well as the concept of the blank. It is a book about typographical marks, readerly response, and editorial treatment. It is a story of the journey from incunabula to Google books, told through the signifiers of blank space: empty brackets, dashes, the et cetera, the asterisk. It is about the semiotics of print and about the social anthropology of reading. The work explores blank space as an extension of Elizabethan rhetoric with readers learning to interpret the mise-en-page as part of a text's persuasive tactics.

This text explores blank space in early modern printed books; it addresses physical blank space (from missing words to vacant pages) as well as the concept of the blank. It is a book about typographical marks, readerly response, and editorial treatment. It is a story of the journey from incunabula to Google books, told through the signifiers of blank space: empty brackets, dashes, the et cetera, the asterisk. It is about the semiotics of print and about the social anthropology of reading. The work explores blank space as an extension of Elizabethan rhetoric with readers learning to interpret the mise-en-page as part of a text's persuasive tactics.

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