Format:
xiii, 366 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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22 cm
Edition:
[1st edition]
ISBN:
9783319968988
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331996898X
Content:
This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 321-347
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Mit Register
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319968995
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nayar, Sheila J. Renaissance responses to technological change Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ISBN 9783319968995
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Technischer Fortschritt
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Schießpulver
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Kompass
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Buchdruck
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Literatur
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Technologie
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Geschichte 1450-1640
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-96899-5
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