Katie Chenoweth

The Prosthetic Tongue

Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Katie Chenoweth is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University and directs the Derrida's Margins Project there. She is the director of the Bibliotheque Derrida collection at Editions du Seuil in Paris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251494
• ISBN-10: 0812251490
• Artikelnr.: 56396236

Autorenporträt

Katie Chenoweth is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University and directs the Derrida's Margins Project there. She is the director of the Bibliotheque Derrida collection at Editions du Seuil in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Originary Prints
Chapter 1. The Artificial Tongue: Beginnings
Chapter 2. Hand of Brass: From Manuscript to Print
Chapter 3. Teleprinting: Geoffroy Tory and the Gallic Hercules
Chapter 4. Phonography: Accents, Orthography, Typography
Chapter 5. Grammatization: Pedagogies of the Mother Tongue
Chapter 6. Prosthetic Sovereignty: François I and the Ear of the People
Chapter 7. Survival: Du Bellay and the Life of Language
Epilogue
Appendix. Technical Treatises on the French Language, 1500¿1600
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments