{"product_id":"the-rhetoric-of-the-page-9780198862109","title":"The Rhetoric of the Page","description":"This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and something, gesturing to what was once there or might be there. They are also a creative opportunity for readers as well as writers: readers respond to what is not there and writers come to anticipate that response. Thus, blank space develops literary and ludic applications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter focuses on one typographical form of what is not there on the page: physical gaps (Chapter One), marks of incompletion such as \u003cem\u003e\u0026amp;c \u003c\/em\u003e(Chapter Two), and the asterisk as a stand-in for things that cannot be said (Chapter Three). By looking at the early-modern page as a visual unit as well as a verbal unit, this volume shows how the relationship between textual layout and textual content is as productive for writers as it is for readers. \u003cem\u003eMise-en-page\u003c\/em\u003e influences readers in the same way that rhetoric influences readers. It is thus possible to speak of 'the rhetoric of the page'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurie Maguire, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow, Magdalen College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaurie Maguire is Professor of Shakespeare at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of Magdalen College. She is the author or co-author of ten books and fifty articles. She writes about Renaissance drama, classical reception, textual studies and medical humanities. She is a Trustee of Shakespeare's Globe. She was joint-winner of the 2014 Hoffman prize for her collaborative article with Emma Smith on Marlowe and Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50860041077010,"sku":"9780198862109","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00bcd31c-e141-4e7c-bcc4-04cd422dae7d.jpg?v=1737568163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rhetoric-of-the-page-9780198862109","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}