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Author Gómez-Bravo, Ana M. (Ana María), author.

Title Textual agency : writing culture and social networks in fifteenth-century Spain / Ana M. Gómez-Bravo.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Iberic
Toronto Iberic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Annotation Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry - the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and spaces. 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.
Contents Introduction -- Poetry, bureaucracy, and the social order -- Escribano culture and socio-professional contiguity -- Pervasive papers -- The hands have it -- Papers unite -- Paper politics -- Books as memory -- Arranging the compilation -- The book of fragments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Subject Incunabula -- Spain.
Incunabula.
Spain.
Transmission of texts -- Spain.
Transmission of texts.
Paratext -- Spain -- History.
Paratext.
History.
Paper.
Paper.
Writing materials and instruments -- History.
Writing materials and instruments.
Authorship -- Sociological aspects.
Authorship -- Sociological aspects.
Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Spanish literature.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Literature and society -- Spain -- History -- 15th century.
Literature and society.
Chronological Term 15th century
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gómez-Bravo, Ana M. (Ana María), author. Textual agency 9781442647206 (OCoLC)830628003
ISBN 9781442667518 (electronic book)
1442667516 (electronic book)
9781442647206
1442647205