Animating the Letter: The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by Laura Kendrick

Animating the Letter: The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

Laura Kendrick

326 pages 1999

1 edition

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In oral cultures, Kendrick (Universite de Versailles) points out, it is the living body in action, in the act of remembering that commands respect. In order for writing to usurp cultural authority from oral speech, she argues, writers in the Middl...

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