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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
Taking Virgil's poetry as a case study, The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand different readers' varying responses to the same text over time, we should take into account the physical form in which they read the text (e.g....
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Taking Virgil's poetry as a case study, The Protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand different readers' varying responses to the same text over time, we should take into account the physical form in which they read the text (e.g. manuscripts, books, or computerized files) as well as the text itself. Cover -- The Protean Virgil: Material Form and the Reception of the Classics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1: Material Instabilities -- 1.1. Reception and the Material Book, I: Introduction -- 1.2. The Grand Narrative of Textual Stability -- 1.3. The Grand Hermeneutical Narrative -- 1.4. The Paradox of the Physical -- 2: Manuscripts -- 2.1. From Roll to Codex -- 2.2. The Baptism of Virgil? -- 2.3. Virgil Goes to School -- 2.4. Virgil in the Service of the Church -- 3: Printed Books I: Text -- 3.1. From Manuscript to Printed Book -- 3.2. Format -- 3.3. From Marginalia to the Commonplace Book -- 3.4. Reading in the Renaissance -- 3.5. Books Read and Unread -- 4: Printed Books II: Illustrations -- 4.1. Word and Image -- 4.2. Periodization and Virgilian Illustration -- 4.3. The Ideology of Engraving -- 4.4. The Question of Audience -- 5: Computers -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Postmodern Textualities -- 5.3. Virtual Virgils -- 5.4. Reception and the Material Book, II: Conclusion -- References -- General Index -- Index of Manuscripts Cited -- Index of Virgilian Editions Cited -- Index of Passages.
