The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature Stephen Orgel

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• ISBN 10: 0192699407
• ISBN 13: 9780192699404
• Author:Stephen Orgel

The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge involving texts. Texts, however, do not need to be books-they are not even necessarily written. The oldest poems were composed to be recited, and only written down centuries later. Much of the most famous poetry of the English Renaissance was composed in manuscript form to circulate among a small social circle. Plays began as scripts for performance. What happens to a play when it becomes a book, or to a collection of poems circulated among friends when it becomes a volume of sonnets? How do essays, plays, poems, stories, become Works? How is an author imagined? In this new addition to the Oxford Textual Perspectives series, Stephen Orgel addresses such questions and considers the idea of the book not simply as a container for written work, but as an essential element in its creation.

Table contents:

Part 1. Introduction

Constructing readers

Illustration

Constructing the author

Part 2. Some Plays

Mischief

The book of the play

Comedy and tragedy

Between stage and book

Part 3. Some Works: The Jonson and Shakespeare Folios

From plays to works

Jonson’s Workes

The Shakespeare folio

Representing the author

Establishing a canon

Inventing romance

Part 4. Poetry and Drama

The drama of poetry

The character of the poet

Poetry as drama

Part 5. How To Be a Poet

Becoming a poet

Domesticating quantitative verse

Classical Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s sonnets

Part 6. What Is a Book?

From manuscript to book

Reading and writing

Great books

Written matter

The creation of the book

Unique copies

The ascent of drama

Illustration

Bibliography

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