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Playing with Format (1)
2021
International audience; Le volume 45 de la revue Interfaces propose une réflexion sur la double nature du format, comme contrainte et condition de la créativité. Il aborde le rôle du format dans la création, développant une réflexion sur ses usages en art, en poésie, dans le théâtre, dans le domaine du livre, des périodiques et de productions telles que les carnets d’artistes. Il met en exergue la dimension expérimentale des variations de format dans les processus de création artistique et les stratégies éditoriales ou de conservation, ainsi que les pratiques hybrides (texte / image) et les transferts intermédiaux.
Tuhoisa influentsa tarttui leskipastorska Pihlin kotikirjastoon: pandemian vaikutus 1800-luvun perheen kirjakokoelmaan
2023
1800-luvulla kirjoilla oli esineinä vielä rahallista ja yhteiskunnalliseen statukseen liittyvää arvoa, ja omistajan kuolema aloitti yleensä vain uuden luvun kirjan elämässä. Tutkin kuolinpesien kirjakokoelmien kohtaloja käyttämällä esimerkkinä erästä 1800-luvun lopun tapausta, jossa leskipastorska Pihl antoi kotikirjastonsa kirjoja helsinkiläiselle Minerva-antikvariaatille myytäväksi. Mikrohistoriallinen esimerkki kertoo perheenjäsenen kuolemantapauksen vaikutuksesta eri sukupuolten ja sukupolvien kirjanomistukseen. Tarkastelen, miten säätyläisperheissä, kuten pappisperheissä, yhtäkkinen kuolema muutti kirjojen omistussuhteita, ja kuinka perheen sisällä miesten ja naisten suhtautuminen kirj…
Transmission of knowledge in Venetian fourteenth-century chronicles
2017
The doctoral thesis analyzes eight Venetian chronicles written c. 1340–1390. It looks into the transmission of these texts by examining their mutual relationships and by reconstructing the textual tradition of individual works. The research was conducted by using the book historical method in which an individual volume is examined from the perspective of textual history, its physical features and ownership history to give a global view of its genesis and functions. The method combines textual criticism and comparative textual analysis with codicological and palaeographical research. The results show that Venetian fourteenth-century chronicles generally had a limited early circulation. This …
Le récit d’esclave africain-américain : réflexions sur une appellation générique
2015
What do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave narratives have been a staple of American literary studies over the past decades. The narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and other ex-slaves have been recovered, anthologized and discussed by eminent critics such as Marion Wilson Starling, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frances Smith Foster and William L. Andrews. For all its ubiquity, however, the generic label 'slave narrative' has been used in many different ways by specialists of African American literature. In this essay I argue that the systematic and sometimes uncritical use of the label has led to generalizations that limit our understanding of…
"A little deeper into the sea": William Hyde's illustrations to Ford Madox Ford's The Cinque Ports
2021
International audience; The broad aim of this paper is to explore the representation of the sea in its interaction with the coastline of the British Isles. It focuses on Ford Madox Ford [Hueffer]’s The Cinque Ports (Blackwood and Sons, 1900) illustrated by the English artist William Hyde (1857-1925).The original Cinque (i.e. “five”) Ports are located on the English southern coast: Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney and Hythe, to which have been added Rye and Winchelsea. They were granted specific “liberties” by royal charter in the 13th century and they used to provide a line of defence against invasion as well as a point of entry into England. Ford set out to chronicle their history at the …
SIGNA VETUSTA MANENT: LE MACULATURAE, IL TABULARIO, I DISEGNI DI PROGETTO RITROVATI (SECC. XII – XVIII)
2014
Ses racines et son développement de 1820 à 1920
2017
The aim of the study is to examine the Saami book history in the context of Finland in order to understand its evolution from 1820 to 1920. The study focuses on books and other printed materials in Saami language(s) (or idioms) and it looks into archival documents to throw light on their intellectual history. The Saami book history has unfolded slowly, and occasionally, it has appeared to fall into decline. The present study follows the French school of book history that uses multidisciplinary methods to examine books as a reflection of ideology in the context of a given culture at a given time. Such an approach allows us to see how a minority can express itself, what possibilities there ar…
Scripsi manu mea Hartmann Schedel in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm 490
2014
The Padua-trained medical doctor Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) of Nuremberg is today perhaps best known for his Liber Chronicarum, printed in Latin and German (Weltchronik) in 1493 with an ambitious programme of xylographies. Thanks to his well-spent study years in Padua (1463–1466), he also played an important role in the dissemination of Italian humanism north of the Alps, as witnessed, for example, by his important collection of inscriptions and Humanist texts. His rich library, consisting of manuscripts, both autographs and written by others, and printed books, was bought from his family by H. J. Fugger of Augsburg (1531–1598) in 1552. Fugger’s library was passed to the Bavarian Court Li…
Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book
2022
This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…