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états très différents de celui où nous vivons.’ (p. I)
It was learning from Chaytor how literary conventions are
affected by the oral, written, or the printed forms, that
suggested to me the need for The Gutenberg Galaxy . Medieval
language and literature were somewhat in the state of the
present movie or the TV show in that, in Chaytor’s words, it
produced little formal criticism in our sense of the term. If
an author wished to know whether his work was good or
bad, he tried it on an audience; if it was approved, he was
soon followed by imitators. But authors were not
constrained by models or systems . . . the audience
wanted a story with plenty of action and movement, the
story, as a rule, showed no great command of character
drawing; this was left to the reciter for portrayal by