On the threshold of print and performance
How prints mattered to bodies of/at work in Molière's published corpus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9392837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abby Zanger, Abby E Zanger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 25-41 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Word & Image (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-6286 • E-ISSN: 1943-2178 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02666286.2001.10435700 |
| OpenAlex | W2061519317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay focuses on two media popular in mid-seventeenth-century France: stage acting and print culture. Both are visual phenomena, theatre because it is seen or looked at (as well as heard and experienced in various other tactile and intellectual fashions) and print because it is looked at in being read (even those being read to in seventeenth-century France would note aspects of format, separations between paragraphs, chapters or sections of a work as well as rubrication, marginalia and various forms of illustration).1 These include vignettes, lettres grises, title pages, frontispieces and other engraved plates. Despite their shared characteristic of being visual phenomena, print and theatre seem to be otherwise quite dissimilar forms. For theatre is most often thought of as a performance art, an ephemeral event that occurs in a specific instance and in which a group of people (actors and audience) are drawn into a shared experience. Print, on the other hand, is often characterized as invariable, identically reproducible over time and across space for individuals reading in private or in small groups.2
Art · Ephemeral key · Event (particle physics · Linguistics · Literature · Marginalia · Print culture · Reading (process · Visual arts · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |