Hinged, Bound, Covered: The Signifying Potential of the Material Codex.
- Author / Editor
- McCarter, Christina.
Hinged, Bound, Covered: The Signifying Potential of the Material Codex.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01 (E). Fully accessible at https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/HINGED_BOUND_COVERED_THE_SIGNIFYING_POTENTIAL_OF_THE_MATERIAL_CODEX/15057483?file=28992765 (accessed January 31, 2025).
- Physical Description
- 181 pp.
- Description
- Explores how the material book is a "metaphorically rich signifier" in contemporary culture and in a selection of English narratives, including BD and PF--where the narrators' books, serving as portals to the dream experience, result in "poetic output" and reveal how books Aallow such creative thinking" as a "byproduct of physically grounded reading."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls