Forms and meanings texts performances and audiences from codex to computer new cultural studies roger chartier 1995 university of pennsylvania press 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 . I would like to open this essay by considering three eighteenth century texts vicos scienza nuova 1725 condorcets esquisse dun tableau historique des progres de lesprit humain 1793 and malesherbess remontrances 1775 each in its own manner questioning the relations between symbolic activities and the structures or modes of transmission of the oral and written. In forms and meanings chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans from stone tablet to guttenberg bible and beyond. Forms and meanings text performance and audience from codex to computer roger chartier new cultural studies author roger chartier publisher university of pennsylvania press 1995 isbn 081221546x 9780812215465 length 128 pages subjects language arts disciplines literacy language arts disciplines literacy literary criticism books reading social science general . Forms and meanings texts performances and audiences from codex to computer new cultural studies chartier roger on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers forms and meanings texts performances and audiences from codex to computer new cultural studies