Exploring the role of translation in early modern literature, Roger Chartier examines how translators influence the meaning and significance of texts through their choices in language, aesthetics, and cultural context. The book highlights the diverse versions of the same work that circulate, emphasizing the transformative power of translation in shaping literary mobility and interpretation.
Exploring the transformative role of printing in the ancien regime, this collection of essays reveals how texts and images shaped the lives of various social classes. Roger Chartier highlights the awareness of church and state authorities regarding the influence of printed materials on behavior and thought. He examines social control mechanisms through guides on morality and civility, while also discussing the evolution of public celebrations, the 1789 cahiers de doléances, and the early paperback genre, providing insight into reading habits and publishing influences of the time.
How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio - a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher).
Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, or narrative ends.
Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.
In Forms and Meanings, Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to Guttenberg bible and beyond.
Analyzes the causes of the French Revolution not simply by investigating its cultural origins, but by pinpointing the conditions that made it possible because conceivable.