Epistolo/Graphie

Studien zur Skriptural-Aisthetik brieflicher Kommunikation im 19. Jahrhundert (Bettine und Achim von Arnim; Theodor Fontane)

By (author) Thorsten Gabler

Book cover: Epistolo/Graphie

Extent: 301 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Zur Genealogie des Schreibens

Series volume number: 29

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(December 2021)

ISBN: 9783770566495

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $74.00

Out of stock

Letters possess, apart from their textual message, aesthetic dimensions originating in the notational iconicity of individual handwritings. Thus, they can only be “read,” in the emphatic sense of the word, as long as they are perceived as manuscripts: with the eyes upon the various traces made by the quills in highly individual topographical arrangements.

  • By (author) Thorsten Gabler