Graphic Unconscious French Wri

by Tom Conley

Book Overview

This 1992 book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing. Focusing on the poetry of Clement Marot, Rabelais's Gargantua, Ronsard's sonnets and the Essais of Montaigne, it argues that printed characters can either supplement or betray what they appear to articulate, revealing compositional patterns that do not appear to be under authorial control...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521410312
• ISBN13: 9780521410311
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"