Body Text : Typografi och litteraturens kropp
(2021) In Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 51(2). p.61-78- Abstract
- In one of his fragments, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg explains that German books printed with roman type, instead of the then default gothic type, always give him a feeling that he needs to translate them – evidence, he says, of “the degree to which our concepts are dependent on these signs”. The article elaborates on this thought. It explores the relation between literature, text (abstract and material), and typography, and argues – by means of bibliographical theory, Goethe’s mother, Jean-Luc Nancy, Roman Ingarden, and a diagnostic comparison between hand writing and digital fonts – that the longstanding, idealistic view, within literary criticism and history, of texts’ ‘content’ as independent of books’ and texts’ materiality and form,... (More)
- In one of his fragments, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg explains that German books printed with roman type, instead of the then default gothic type, always give him a feeling that he needs to translate them – evidence, he says, of “the degree to which our concepts are dependent on these signs”. The article elaborates on this thought. It explores the relation between literature, text (abstract and material), and typography, and argues – by means of bibliographical theory, Goethe’s mother, Jean-Luc Nancy, Roman Ingarden, and a diagnostic comparison between hand writing and digital fonts – that the longstanding, idealistic view, within literary criticism and history, of texts’ ‘content’ as independent of books’ and texts’ materiality and form, obstructs scholars’ striving for understand-ing. Text is not only representation; it is also presentation. Text has form, and the form produces meaning. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Artikeln behandlar typografins roll i relationen mellan text och läsare med utgångspunkt i bland annat bibliografisk teori och Jean-Luc Nancys fenomenologiska tankar om skrift och läsande. I fokus för artikeln står frågan: Kan vi förstå boken med sin typograferade text som litteraturens kropp?
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- author
- Lundblad, Kristina LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Body text : Typography and the corporeality of literature
- publishing date
- 2021-12-16
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- typografi, litteraturens kroppslighet, text, materiell text, materialitet, litteraturens materialitet, bibliografisk teori, DuRietz, Jean-Luc Nancy, Roman Ingarden, bokhistoria, Goethes mor, frakturstil, antikvastil, handstil, skrivstil
- in
- Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
- volume
- 51
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
- ISSN
- 1104-0556
- DOI
- 10.54797/tfl.v51i1-2.1723
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- df275d55-bf9c-433d-a0ce-6355315c36b1
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-06 10:22:48
- date last changed
- 2022-02-10 15:52:16
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title = {{Body Text : Typografi och litteraturens kropp}},
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