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Article: Public sphere/contact zone: Habermas, early print, and verse translation.(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- March 22, 2004
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CAN WE INDENTIFY AN early modern public sphere, a "space for critique freed from the constraints of church and court"? (1) If so, what forms it, what is its character, and what is its relation to literary practice? First, I would propose that the arrival of printing presses in England initiates not only an information revolution, and not only the "marketplace of print" explored by Alexandra Halasz, but also a certain kind of literary public sphere. According to Halasz, "print permanently altered the discursive field not by bringing books to the marketplace (medieval scriptoria did that) but by enabling the marketplace to develop as a means of producing, disseminating, and ...