27 records matched your query
03347aam a2200445 i 4500 001 270B4CF2D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171205010050 008 170707t20172017iaua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017005558 020 $a 160938475X 020 $a 9781609384753 020 $a 1609384741 020 $a 9781609384746 035 $a (OCoLC)983824487 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d INU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a P211 $b .B56 2017 082 00 $a 411.09 $2 23 084 $a ART015080 $a ART015080 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Boeckeler, Erika Mary, $e author. 245 10 $a Playful letters : $b a study in early modern alphabetics / $c Erika Mary Boeckeler. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 285 pages, 8 unnumberd pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Impressions: studies in the art, culture, and future of books 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index. 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Alphabet $x History. 650 0 $a Writing. 650 7 $a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a ART / History / Renaissance. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Alphabet. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00805945 650 7 $a Writing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181638 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Impressions (Series) (University of Iowa Press) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116040238.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171205012611.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=270B4CF2D98A11E78F813B5397128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search