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The aesthetics of fragments: reading pastedowns in context or, late medieval bookbinders, readers, and their choices
- Abstract:
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Fragments become material and visual signifiers in their own right when worked into bindings as pastedowns. The potential of pastedowns – musical or otherwise – to create meanings in the perception of users attuned to such messages is investigated through four case studies. Understood emphatically as metatexts, pastedowns, by virtue of their material, visual and semantic qualities, not only may reflect binders’ and patrons’ aesthetic strategies and intentions but also have the potential to co...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Contributors
+ Varelli, G
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Music Faculty
Role:
Contributor
ORCID:
0000-0002-6995-9960
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology
- Series:
- Studies in Manuscript Cultures
- Series number:
- 21
- Pages:
- 205-240
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-07
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9783110717884
- ISBN:
- 9783110717228
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Chapter
- Pubs id:
-
1150136
- Local pid:
- pubs:1150136
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-18
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Karl Kügle
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Creative Open Access. © 2020 Karl Kügle, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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