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ABCdaire des objets d'écriture
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ISBN: 2080107097 9782080107091 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Flammarion


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Objets d'écriture
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ISBN: 2082002594 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Flammarion


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The pencil perfect: the untold story of a cultural icon
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ISBN: 9783899556759 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin Gestalten


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Codex und Material
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ISBN: 9783447109376 3447109378 Year: 2018 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz


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Schreibgeräte sammeln : vom Faustkeil zum Griffel, vom Federhalter zum Füllfederhalter und Faserschreiber
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ISBN: 387467391X 9783874673914 Year: 1989 Publisher: München Laterna magica


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Griffel, feder, bildschirmstift: eine kulturgeschichte der screibgeräte
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ISBN: 3855022208 Year: 1985 Publisher: Stuttgart AT Verlag Aarau


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Vom Griffel zum Kultobjekt : 3000 Jahre Geschichte des Schreibgerätes.
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ISBN: 3901232354 9783901232350 Year: 2001 Volume: 6 Publisher: Wien Phoibos-Verlag

Scripts, grooves, and writing machines : representing technology in the Edison era
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ISBN: 0804732701 0804738726 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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An innovative and imaginative study of machines for writing and reading in late nineteenth century America, this book argues that these inscriptive technologies were materialized theories of language: that is, embodiments of the way people perceived writing and reading. Beginning with the promotion of shorthand alphabets, the author investigates varying inscriptive practices, from a surprising and complex genealogy of the phonograph, to new readings of the history of the typewriter and of the earliest silent films. Technological developments coincided with a new awareness of oral and inscribed communication which influenced the growth of consumer culture, literary and artistic experiences of modernity, and the definition of the 'human' sciences, such as linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. As a parallel with the present, this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century.


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Writing on skin in the age of Chaucer
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ISBN: 9783110578133 9783110575729 3110575876 3110578131 9783110575873 9783110709612 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin’s precarious state as an entity of its own.

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