Forms and Meanings

Download or read book Forms and Meanings written by Roger Chartier and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in which a text is transmitted not only constrains the production of meaning but defines and constructs its audience.