Scrolling Forward by David M. Levy

Author:David M. Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: e9781628723977
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2015-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

[S]ometime in the eighteenth century the cultural trajectories of print and script were set by their respective relations to the hand, and from that time they did diverge. Print lost any association with the hand just as pointedly as script [handwriting] retained it. This association of script with the physical executor of the script endowed handwriting with a unique set of cultural meanings and functions. For if print was defined by its dissociation from the hand, the body, and the corporeal individual that created it, then handwritten matter necessarily referred back to the hand, the body, and the individual in new ways. . . . Words transmitted their authors’ ideas; scripts, the authors themselves.31

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