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005			20240726104753.0
008			171002s2017 iau ob s001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781609384753 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aP211 _b.P539 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBoeckeler, Erika Mary, _e1
245	1	0	_aPlayful letters : _ba study in early modern alphabetics / _cErika Mary Boeckeler.
260			_aIowa City : _bUniversity of Iowa Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (pages)
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490	1		_aImpressions: studies in the art, culture, and future of books
520	0		_a"Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics--a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image. Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the "letterature" that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body--an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image. In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic alphabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia, Playful Letters contributes to the continuous story of how people use new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including the alphabet itself"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aAcknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Body Type, Type Faces: The Human Typography of Geofroy Tory; Chapter Two. Body Language: Human Alphabets; Chapter Three. Type/Face in Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portraiture; Chapter Four."I of These Shall Wrest an Alphabet": Shakespearean Alphabetics; Chapter Five. Cyrillic Letters: Printers, Poetry, Primers, Peter I; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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650		0	_aAlphabet _xHistory.
650		0	_aWriting.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell