Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer

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Forms and Meanings University of PennsylvaniaPress N E W C U L T U R A L S T U D I E S Joan Dejean, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, and Peter Stallybrass, Editors A complete listing of the books in the series appearsat the back of this volume Forms and Meanings Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chartier, Roger, 1945Forms and meanings : texts, performances, and audiences from codex to computer / by Roger Chartier. p. cm. — (New cultural studies) Collection of four studies, two of whichhave been revised for this publication with new titles, and three of which were givenas the 1994 Rosenbach lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. Includes bibliographicalreferences and index. Contents: Representations of the written word — Princely patronage and the economy of dedication —From court festivity to city spectators—Popular appropriations :the readersand their books. ISBN0-8122-3302-6 (cloth). - ISBNo-8i22-i546-X(pbk.) i. Written communication —History. 2. Transmission of texts. 3. Authors and patrons. 4. Literature and society. 5. Books and reading. I. Tide. II. Scries. P2H.C48 1995 302.2'244: 09 —dc20 95-16701 CIP ...