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The rhetoric of the page /

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This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox-simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers. Readers respond to what is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maguire, Laurie E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Printing > History > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Graphic design (Typography) > History > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Layout (Printing) > History > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Table of Contents:
  • 'This Page Intentionally Left Blank'; or, the apophatic page
  • Et cetera/etcetera/ETC; or, the aposiopetic page
  • The asterisk; or, the gnomic page.