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The Broadview introduction to book history
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ISBN: 9781554810871 1554810876 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ontario Broadview Press

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Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field. "For over five hundred years in the West, a particular form of the book-the printed codex-has been woven into the fabric of our lives. It has been the default medium for publicly circulating information and entertainment, and has structured the work, leisure and religious devotion of countless people. Now, as the cultural centrality of the printed book is challenged, we are prompted to reassess its value and its place in the history of media change. Readable but rooted in current scholarship, this introductory guide to book history tries not to privilege any one disciplinary perspective or historical period. Rather, the guide and its accompanying anthology aim to help the reader to find his or her bearings within the field, and to provide a map with which to navigate book history more widely."--

Greenwood technographies
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ISSN: 15497321 ISBN: 031333028X Volume: *2 Publisher: Westport ; London Greenwood Press


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The history of the book in South Asia
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ISBN: 9781409437840 1409437841 9781315239194 9781351888301 Year: 2013 Volume: *2 Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate,

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This title covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts.


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The history of the book in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9781409433101 1409433102 9781315239187 9781351888271 Year: 2013 Volume: *3 Publisher: Burlington : Ashgate,

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This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of printing - long before Gutenberg - and the eventual, belated acceptance of the printed book and the development of print culture are explored in further groups of papers. Cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors are all considered throughout the volume. Although the articles reflect the predominance in the area of Muslim books - Arabic, Persian and Turkish - the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions are also discussed. The editor’s introduction provides a survey of the field from the origins of writing to the modern literary and intellectual revivals.


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Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts
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ISBN: 9783110753301 3110753308 3110745453 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of 'manuscripts' to the larger perspective of 'written artefacts'.

A companion to the history of the book
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ISBN: 9781405127653 1405127651 9781405192781 140519278X Year: 2009 Volume: 48 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers,

Buch
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ISBN: 3484371110 3110929252 Year: 2001 Publisher: Tübingen Niemeyer

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Kein anderes Medium hat in einer Zeitspanne von fast zweitausend Jahren die westliche Zivilisation so sehr geprägt wie das Buch. Und doch - oder gerade deshalb - sind die Vorstellungen von dem, was unter einem Buch verstanden wird, heute ebenso unscharf und facettenreich wie die Vielfalt funktionaler Erwartungen, die an das Buch gerichtet werden. Dies gilt nicht nur für den materialen Gegenstand sondern auch für das Formalobjekt wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als Einführung in die Buchwissenschaft für Studierende der Kulturwissenschaften und interessierte Laien. Er erschießt das Buch als Basis- und Leitmedium in frühneuzeitlichen und modernen Kommunikationssystemen. Das Medium Buch wird aus druckgeschichtlicher, medialer, gesellschaftlicher und ökonomischer Perspektive analysiert und die Grundzüge der historischen Entwicklung dargestellt. Der Zeitrahmen reicht vom Buch des Mittelalters in der Kodexform bis zum virtuellen eBook der Gegenwart, der Schwerpunkt liegt allerdings auf dem neuzeitlichen und modernen typographischen Buch. Erklärt werden sowohl die handwerklichen und industriellen Fertigungstechniken, die zu unterschiedlichen Buchformen geführt haben, als auch die gesellschaftlichen Umstände, die das Buch in seiner Funktionalität, Verbreitung und seinem Symbolwert bestimmen. Dem Buchhandel, dem wegen seiner Verflechtung von ,Geist und Kommerz' eine besonders signifikante Rolle zuzuschreiben ist, wird in diesem Band ein auch kritischer Teil gewidmet. Das erste Kapitel bietet Ansätze zu einer Theorie der Buchkommunikation, die das Fach Buchwissenschaft als akademische Disziplin in Zukunft zu leisten hat, sowie einen kurzen Überblick über die wichtigsten Methoden der Buchforschung und einschlägige Forschungsarbeiten.

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