El autor ante sus lectores en el siglo XVII: el vértigo de la imprenta

Abstract

The printing press, like any other technology, responds to historically defined demands and has an impact on ideology and value systems. In this case, it directly affects the position of the authors, in their own view, but also in relation to the text and its readers. Between rejection and attraction, the effect of printing results in a vertigo with direct manifestations in the texts and, above all, in the paratextual statements. We propose approach particularly centered in seventeenth-century narrative, because of its particular relationship with the printing press, other than that kept by the lyric poetry or drama, and the process of professionalization of the authors that occurs in its space.