Visible Voices: Translating Verse Into Script & Print 3000 BC-AD 2000

by Nicolas Barker

In Visible Voices Nicolas Barker traces the history of the "translation" of poetry from a spoken medium to a written, or printed, medium. The book moves from the pictograms of the Ancient 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. St?phane Mallarm?'s typographically exploded poem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847772129
• ISBN13: 9781847772121
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"