Roger Chartier 
Forms and Meanings 
Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer

In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market, and explores how the form in which a text is transmitted not only constrains the production of meaning but defines and constructs its audience.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1. Representations of the Written Word
Ch. 2. Princely Patronage and the Economy of Dedication
Ch. 3. From Court Festivity to City Spectators
Ch. 4. Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Roger Chartier is Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Professor in the College de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.