Textual Agency

Description:

At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation."--pub. desc.

subjects: Spanish poetry, history and criticism,  Sociological aspects,  Incunabula,  Spanish literature,  Literature and society,  History and criticism,  Writing materials and instruments,  Paper,  Authorship,  History,  Transmission of texts,  Paratext,  Writing,  Materials and instruments,  Printing