The prosthetic tongue : printing technology and the rise of the French language /

The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography and grammar, to politics, pedagogy and poetics, over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chenoweth, Katie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Material texts.
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Description
Summary:The Prosthetic Tongue charts the technological reinvention of French across a range of domains, from typography, orthography and grammar, to politics, pedagogy and poetics, over the course of two transformative decades in the sixteenth century.
Physical Description:350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812251494
0812251490