Pretexts for Writing

Seán M. Williams

earliest edition we have, 2019 Bucknell University Press, 2019

"Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to t...

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Pretexts for Writing edition · 2019 · Bucknell University Press · 278 pages · 9781684480531
Pretexts for Writing edition · 2019 · Bucknell University Press · 9781684480524
Pretexts for Writing edition · 2019 · Bucknell University Press · 9781684480548
Pretexts for Writing edition · 2019 · Bucknell University Press · 242 pages · 9781684480661

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