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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Material texts.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812251494 0812251490 |