Academic literature on the topic 'Circulation of texts'

This is a work about the publications and archival habits of a radical minority. The Quakers organised themselves around reading, writing, archiving, and publication— activities in which every member was expected to participate. The paradox of these activities is that while they focused upon individual spiritual development, they were dependent upon and tested by intensely collaborative authorship and communal reading. Reading amongst Friends was an element of their spiritual identity, and also a direct inheritance of changes in information production and circulation triggered during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. Over time, Quaker reading practices changed along with the publications they produced and circulated, especially at the onset of state-sanctioned persecution during the Restoration. Publications, which initially featured Quaker leaders as authors, extended to include the testimonies of the broader membership experiencing persecution. Alternate readings of Quaker texts fuelled the doctrinal disputes between members. So too did the makeup of membership change, widening audiences, attracting scholars on the one hand, and non-English speakers on the other. Within current scholarship on the history of reading, Quakers show how individual readings developed in a communal environment. Within the study of book history, Quakers show how the uses of print were integrated with the uses of manuscript, and they offer insight into the role oral discussion plays in “reading,” which in turn, has shaped the outcome of what has survived. Finally, within religious history, the purpose of this thesis is to detail what it meant for men and women at the end of the 17th century to document their experience of revolutionary religious fervour of the Civil War period in its aftermath — and how that fervour structured the production and circulation of texts for centuries to come.

This study explores the literature of late Choson in its material context, examining how the physical aspects of the production and circulation of texts impacted the practice of writing. By analyzing various travelogues from Beijing (yonhaengnok) and private collections (munjip) from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, I examine how transcultural contacts across borders and changing textual environments influenced intellectual circles and literary trends in late Choson Korea. Interpreting the literary text as the material product of a culture, my study shifts the emphasis from the author as the creator of a text to the editors, publishers, collectors, and readers, through whose hands a text is reshaped and given new meaning. In light of the concept of social authorship, the written culture of late Choson will be revisited in relation to complex networks of social interactions. The print and manuscript culture of the day, socio-political groups that the author belonged to, the book market, and the government policies of that time provide interesting information on the practices of literary production, based on the larger cultural dynamics of East Asia. This dissertation revolves around a series of questions about circulation networks and their impact. In regard to the social and cultural condition of literary production in the eighteenth century, I examine transnational interactions with foreign intellectuals as well as collective coterie activities of reading and writing among the literati in Seoul. How did the flourishing of print culture of the Jiangnan area and the book markets in Beijing change the textual dynamics of Korea? Did the government censorship carried out by the Qing and the Choson governments effectively control the circulation of books? How did the Choson literati consume the foreign books and why did they form so many literary communities in Seoul? By investigating the large scope of these textual situations, I explore how the transcultural contacts "across borders" and the changing textual environments influenced intellectual circles and literary trends in late Choson. With respect to textual dynamics, I emphasize the various "informal networks" that have been placed at the center of book reception and consumption. For example, a number of book brokers in the Qing and Choson facilitated the distribution of books, and the sharing of manuscripts among friends in literary coteries was influential in the shaping of new literary tastes and public culture. These unconventional routes outside of established channels functioned as the actual key drivers of book culture in late Choson. My argument throughout this dissertation is that "informal circulation" is a central, rather than marginal, feature of eighteenth-century book culture and literary production. Through a specific case study of a literatus-official, Yi Tong-mu (1741-1793), my dissertation addresses these issues in three parts that consist of seven chapters: (1) Part One, "Social Authorship and Manuscript Production," examines how the writings of Yi Tong-mu were constructed and transmitted through a complex of social interactions and how the physical aspects of texts inform various transactions of human and non-human agencies in the production of texts. (2) Part Two, "The Location of Texts: Circulation of Books, Censorship, and Community Activities" traces how social networks among the domestic literati as well as among foreign intellectuals facilitated the circulation of books. First, I examine the large scope of transnational interaction between China and Korea, and the literary inquisition carried out by the Choson government in response to the changing textual environment. This is followed by a discussion of the poetry communities in Seoul, in which the Choson literati shared their reading practices and produced their common aesthetic tastes in their writings. (3) Part Three, "Making Meaning: Reading Self and Social Discourses," examines how Yi Tong-mu read books from the Ming and the Qing--such as those by Yuan Hongdao of the Ming and Wang Shizhen of the Qing--and wrote his own poetry and literary criticism and embodied his interpretive activities in his own works.<br>East Asian Languages and Civilizations

La collection de sermons ad status du maître franciscain Guibert de Tournai († 1284), inscrite dans le nouvel art de prêcher qui se développe au XIIIe siècle, est surtout connue pour la particularité de son organisation, qui répartit les sermons selon les états de vie d'auditoires plutôt que selon les occasions du temps liturgique. Cette thèse réalise un bilan et une actualisation des connaissances sur l'auteur et la collection, ainsi qu'une analyse approfondie de cette œuvre, assortie d'une transcription intégrale. Elle ouvre également la voie d'une réinterprétation du remploi littéraire chez Guibert de Tournai, et propose une lecture nouvelle du découpage ad status à la lumière de la mnémotechnique et des arts de la mémoire. Le premier chapitre fait un bilan des connaissances sur Guibert de Tournai. Enfant de la bourgeoisie flamande, il reste fidèle à sa terre d'origine et aux hommes qu'il a connus ici, bien longtemps après que ses études et son engagement dans l'ordre franciscain l'ont amené à Paris. Intellectuel fécond dans des genres variés, son œuvre laisse entrevoir une personnalité éprise de mystique et de contemplation. Personnage proéminent dans le paysage intellectuel parisien des années 1260, en relation avec de grands personnages politiques et intellectuels de son temps, il s'intéresse aussi aux questions de formation et de transmission du savoir, et bien évidemment à la prédication que nous le voyons pratiquer, grâce à des reportations parisiennes, jusqu'au soir de sa vie. Le deuxième chapitre est consacré à la présentation et l'analyse détaillées de la collection ad status. La tradition en est foisonnante, compliquée par quelques accidents conjoncturels dans la transmission du texte. Elle laisse tout de même entrevoir un texte qui semble relativement stable. Dans son contenu, systématiquement analysé, la collection est un bel exemple de « sermons modernes » dans sa manière d'arranger la matière prêchable, en se servant de très nombreuses distinctiones pour structurer les textes. Le troisième chapitre explore le rapport de Guibert à l'intertextualité ou « remploi » littéraire. Le maître franciscain puise volontiers sa matière dans d'autres œuvres : son remploi des Sermones vulgares de Jacques de Vitry dans ses sermons ad status est connu de longue date, mais il a aussi trouvé chez Guillaume d'Auvergne une partie de la matière première des sermons sur les sacrements. Les emprunts à Jacques de Vitry, mesurés grâce à l'indicateur des exempla, se révèlent moins systématiques et plus complexes qu'on aurait pu le penser, montrant à quel point le remploi littéraire faisait partie intégrante du processus de création, pour Guibert comme pour d'autres auteurs médiévaux. Le rôle des œuvres de Guibert comme réservoirs de matière, faisant à leur tour l'objet de remploi dans des œuvres de genres et d'auteurs variés, est également mis en évidence dans une série de textes. Le dernier chapitre enfin propose une nouvelle lecture du choix d'organisation ad status de la collection, une interprétation alternative du projet de Guibert. Plutôt qu'un miroir de la société réelle ou idéale du prédicateur, la composition de sermons selon des états de vie de l'auditoire peut être comprise, à la lumière des arts de la mémoire, comme un ingénieux outil mnémotechnique pour l'organisation de la matière prêchable. En faisant des status des « lieux de mémoire », Guibert a réalisé une classification thématique de la matière prêchable selon les topoi attachés aux états de vie<br>The collection of ad status sermons by the Franciscan Guibert de Tournai (d. 1284), rooted in the new art of preaching that was developing in the thirteenth century, is best known for its particular organization, arranging the sermons according to the social position (or estate) of their audience rather than by liturgical occasions. This thesis assesses and updates our knowledge of the author and the collection, and provides an in-depth analysis of this body of work, accompanied by a complete transcription. Furthermore, the thesis paves the way for a reinterpretation of the ways in which Guibert used and adapted earlier texts, and it proposes a new understanding of the ad status division, in light of mnemonics and the art of memory.The first chapter assesses our knowledge of Guibert de Tournai. A child of the Flemish bourgeoisie, he remained faithful to his land of origin and to the men he knew there, long after his studies and his engagement in the Franciscan order had led him to Paris. Intellectually fertile in a variety of genres, his works hint at a personality passionate about mysticism and contemplation. A pre-eminent figure in the Parisian intellectual landscape of the 1260s, connected to the key political and intellectual figures of his time, he was interested in questions regarding the acquisition and transmission of knowledge, and evidently in the preaching we know – thanks to Parisian reportationes – that he practiced until his twilight years.The second chapter offers a detailed presentation and analysis of the ad status collection. There are many extant manuscripts, and their analysis is complicated by several inconsistencies in the transmission of the work, but overall and over time the text seems relatively stable. The content of the collection, systematically analysed, provides an excellent example of the “modern sermon” in the way it arranges the material for preaching, drawing on numerous distinctiones to structure the texts.The third chapter explores the link between Guibert and intertextuality or textual reuse. The Franciscan master took much of his material from other works; his reuse of the Sermones vulgares of Jacques de Vitry in his ad status sermons has been known for a long time, but he also found much of his preaching material for sermons on the sacraments in the work of Guillaume d’Auvergne. Guibert's appropriation of the work of Jacques de Vitry, measured through the use of his predecessor's exempla, is revealed to be less systematic and more complex than scholars would otherwise have predicted, demonstrating just how, and to what extent, textual reuse was integral to the creation process for Guibert as well as for other medieval authors. The role of the works of Guibert as reservoirs of material, in turn themselves reused in works of various genres and authors, is demonstrated through the analysis of a number of later texts.The final chapter proposes a new consideration of Guibert's choice of constructing his collection as an ad status text. The composition of sermons according to the social position of the audience can be understood, in light of the art of memory, as an ingenious mnemonic tool for the organisation of preaching material rather than as a mirror of a real or ideal society. In turning the status into “lieux de mémoire”, Guibert created a thematic classification of preaching material according to topoi attached to the estates

Cette thèse se propose de réévaluer le statut des sources ibériques au sein d’un corpus de pièces anglaises jouées entre la fin du règne d’Élisabeth Ie et le début de l’ère jacobéenne, période marquée par de profonds changements socio-culturels. Elle se concentre non pas sur la tension bien connue et souvent étudiée entre hispanophilie et hispanophobie qui caractérise alors la représentation des relations anglo-ibériques, mais envisage ce rapport selon une perspective textuelle, culturelle et esthétique incluant les relais qui, à l’échelle européenne, permettaient à ces textes de circuler, tout en les modifiant. Ce travail porte donc sur les réseaux d’influence des textes ibériques de la culture de cour des XVe et XVIe siècles, et leur impact sur le théâtre anglais de la première modernité. Il aborde notamment le roman sentimental Tractado de amores de Arnalte y Lucenda de Diego de San Pedro, la poésie de cour de Juan Boscán et Garcilaso de la Vega avec le long poème Leandro et le sonnet XXIX « Pasando el mar Leandro el animoso », la romance pastorale Los siete libros de La Diana de Jorge de Montemayor et le récit picaresque publié anonymement, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades. Ces œuvres sont mises en dialogue avec des textes didactiques et philosophiques tels que El libro aureo de Marco Aurelio d’Antonio de Guevara, Le Courtisan de Baldassare Castiglione traduit par Boscán et El Examen de Ingenios de Juan Huarte de San Juan, qui s’intéressent tous à la figure du courtisan et à la notion de « service ». Quant au corpus de textes dramatiques anglais privilégiés dans cette étude, il est principalement constitué de pièces de Shakespeare, en particulier de The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night et The Winter’s Tale. Ces œuvres sont mises en relation avec d’autres écrits contemporains : Hero and Leander de Christopher Marlowe, Blurt Master Constable de Thomas Dekker, ainsi que des textes de John Lyly et de Ben Jonson. En complétant et réorientant les études portant sur les intrigues et les personnages de la littérature dramatique anglaise, champ d’investigation traditionnel des Source Studies, cette thèse aborde ces éléments selon une approche qui prend en compte les perspectives sociétales et théâtrales inhérentes à la littérature issue de la société de cour ibérique : cette littérature innovante reflète, façonne et interroge tout particulièrement la théâtralité d’un milieu où les individus ne cessent de se mettre en scène. Tour à tour auteurs, dédicataires et personnages-clés de ces fictions dont ils sont très friands, les membres de la société de cour ibérique fournissent ainsi aux écrivains anglais de la première modernité un terrain de jeu propice à l’innovation et à l’expérimentation dramaturgiques<br>This dissertation proposes to reassess the status of Iberian sources within a corpus of English plays staged between the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and the beginning of the Jacobean era, a period marked by deep socio-cultural changes. It does not focus on the well-known and often studied tension between Hispanophilia and Hispanophobia which characterises the representation of Anglo-Iberian relations at the time, but considers this relationship from a textual, cultural and aesthetic perspective including the go-betweens that, at a European scale, enabled these texts to circulate while they were altering them. This work thus deals with the networks of influence of Iberian texts belonging to 15th-and-16th-century court culture and the impact they had on early modern English drama. In particular, it tackles the sentimental romance Tractado de amores de Arnalte y Lucenda by Diego de San Pedro, court poetry by Juan Boscán and Garcilaso de la Vega with the long poem Leandro and sonnet XXIX « Pasando el mar Leandro el animoso », the pastoral romance Los siete libros de La Diana by Jorge de Montemayor and the anonymously published picaresque tale La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes, y de sus fortunas y adversidades. These works are set in conversation with didactic and philosophical texts such as El libro aureo de Marco Aurelio by Antonio de Guevara, The Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione translated by Boscán and El Examen de Ingenios by Juan Huarte de San Juan: they all deal with the figure of the courtier and the notion of « service ». As to the corpus of English dramatic texts chosen for this study, it is mainly composed of plays by Shakespeare, notably The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night et The Winter’s Tale. These works are related to other contemporary writings: Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe, Blurt Master Constable by Thomas Dekker, along with texts by John Lyly and Ben Jonson. By supplementing and redirecting the studies addressing plots and characters in the English dramatic literature, the traditional field of investigation of Source Studies, this dissertation discusses these elements from a perspective which takes into account the societal and theatrical dimensions inherent to the literature born out of the Iberian court society : this innovative literature reflects, shapes and questions especially the theatricality of an environment where individuals never cease to stage themselves. Alternately authors, dedicatees and key-characters and figures of these fictions they enjoy thoroughly, the members of the Iberian court society thus provide early modern English writers with a playground conducive to dramaturgical innovation and experimentation

Following recent critical work on writers' representations of sociability in Romantic literature, this thesis examines in detail the textual strategies (such as allusion, acts of address, and the use of 'coterie' symbols or references) which writers used to seek to establish a friendly or sympathetic relationship with a particular reader or readers, or to create and define a sense of community identity between readers. The thesis focuses on specific relationships between pairs and groups of writers (who form one another's first readers), and examines 'sociable' genres like letters, manuscript albums, occasional poetry, and periodical essays in a diverse series of author case-studies (Anna Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, John Keats and Leigh Hunt). Such genres, the thesis argues, show how manuscript and print culture could frequently overlap and intersect, meaning that writers confronted the demands of two co-existing audiences - one private and familiar, the other public and unknown - in the same work. Rather than arguing that writers used manuscript culture practices and produced 'coterie' works purely to avoid confronting their anxieties about publishing in the commercial sphere of print culture, the thesis suggests that in producing such 'coterie' works writers engaged with and reflected contemporary philosophical and political concerns about the relationship between the individual and wider communities. In these works, writers engaged with the legacy of eighteenth-century philosophical ideas about the role (and limitations) of the sympathetic imagination in maintaining social communities, and with interpretative theories about the best kind of reader. Furthermore, the thesis argues that reading literary texts in the specific, material context in which they are 'published' to particular readers, either in print, manuscript, or letters, is vital to understanding writer/reader relationships in the Romantic period. This approach reveals how within each publication space, individual texts could be placed (either by their writers, by editors, or by other readers) in meaningful relationships with other texts, absorbing or appropriating them into new interpretative contexts.

L’influence littéraire exercée par l'Espagne du Siècle d’or sur la France du premier XVIIe siècle est liée à un ample mouvement éditorial. Cette thèse, qui associe histoire du livre et histoire littéraire, étudie les traductions françaises de textes espagnols qui ont circulé en France entre 1600 et 1660 – traductions qui concernent des textes de toute nature (religieux, littéraires, scientifiques, techniques...). Pour évaluer l’ampleur de ce mouvement éditorial, une enquête bibliométrique est d’abord réalisée. Elle permet de reconstituer l’histoire de cette diffusion par l’imprimé. On identifie les principaux foyers de production et on examine la production des officines de librairie engagées dans ce marché. L’analyse se porte ensuite sur l’activité de traduction elle-même, dans la diversité de ses pratiques. Les profils des principaux traducteurs d’espagnol en français sont distingués : le traducteur professionnel, l’amateur éclairé, l’imprimeur, le religieux, le médecin etc. Une attention particulière est accordée aux hommes de lettres qui tentent de concilier un travail de plume mal considéré avec leurs ambitions littéraires. Les pratiques des traducteurs sont enfin cernées par l’analyse des textes et de leur « mise en livre », en comparant différentes traductions (concurrentes ou successives) d’un même texte. Les motivations diverses de ces versions et la spécificité de chaque projet d’écriture et de publication sont ainsi cernées. Portant sur un large pan de la production écrite en français souvent délaissé par l'histoire littéraire, ce travail sur la pénétration de la culture espagnole en France et sur le monde des traducteurs interroge aussi la relation entre écriture et publication, et sur le rôle de « l’éditorial » dans la construction de l’autorité littéraire<br>The literary influence exercised by Golden Age Spain on France in the first half of the 17th century is related to a very considerable mass of editorial activity. This thesis, which combines the history of the book and literary history, studies French translations of Spanish texts which circulated in France between 1600 and 1660 - translations concerning texts of all kinds (religious, literary, scientific, technical, etc.).In order to evaluate this editorial activity, a bibliometric enquiry must first be carried out. This enquiry allows us to reconstitute the history of of the circulation of this material in print. The principal centres of production are identified and the production of the workshops of the booksellers’ operating in this market are examined. The analysis then shifts to the activity of translation itself, in all its diversity. The profiles of the different principal translators from Spanish to French are laid out: the professional translator, the enlightened amateur, the printer, the cleric, the physician, etc. Particular attention is paid to men of letters who attempt to conciliate what is perceived as lowly hackwork with their literary ambitions. Finally, the translators’ practices themselves are the object of study, through comparison, using textual analysis as well as examining questions of format and layout, of different (concurrent or successive) translations of the same text. Account is thus made of the diverse motivations of these versions and the specificity of each writing project and publication. Taking as its base a large swathe of writing produced in French often neglected by literary history, this study of the penetration of Spanish culture in France and of the world of translators looks anew at the relation between writing and publication, as well as at the editorial role in the construction of literary legitimacy

Nous avons pour objectif d’établir un modèle de la communication textuelle distinct du modèle de la communication orale. Pour ce faire, il convient d’abord d’illustrer la valeur du texte en tant qu’énoncé en linguistique, à travers une comparaison avec le terme de « discours ». Etant donné que les interlocuteurs ne peuvent se situer dans une simultanéité spatio-temporelle, il est nécessaire d’examiner les facteurs relatifs aux communications textuelles, par exemple, les relations existant entre le texte et les sujets (auteur et lecteurs), la question du temps, etc. Pour établir ce modèle de la communication textuelle, d’une part, nous avons fait appel à la triple mimèsis de Paul Ricœur. D’autre part, nous soulignons la pluralité de l’interprétation. Les différentes interprétations d’un texte ne se produisent pas isolément mais entretiennent des relations interactives. De plus, à travers ces relations, les interprétations forment synchroniquement un plan topographique. Celui-ci n’est pas figé mais se transforme diachroniquement. Nous pouvons définir ces interactions textuelles comme la circulation textuelle. Grâce à cette circulation, un texte peut maintenir sa vitalité, à savoir sa présence<br>We have objective to establish the model of the textual communication distinct from the model of the oral communication. With this intention, it is initially advisable to illustrate the value of the text as a statement in linguistics, through the comparison with the term "speech". Because the interlocutors cannot be located in space-time simultaneity, it is necessary to examine the factors relating to the textual communication, for example, the relations existing between the text and the subjects (author and readers), the question of time, etc. To establish the model of the textual communication, on the one hand, we count on triple mimèsis of Paul Ricœur. In addition, we underline the plurality of interpretation. Various interpretations of a text do not exist separately but they maintain the interactive relations. Furthermore, through these relations, the interpretations shape synchronically a topographic plan. This one is not fixed but transformed diachronically. We can define these textual interactions as textual circulation. By this circulation, a text can maintain its vitality, namely its presence