The Myth of Print Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Print Culture write by Joseph A. Dane. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The Myth of Print Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Myth of Print Culture is a critique of bibliographical and editorial method, focusing on the disparity between levels of material evidence (unique and singular) and levels of text (abstract and reproducible). It demonstrates how the particulars of evidence are manipulated in standard scholarly arguments by the higher levels of textuality they are intended to support. The individual studies in the book focus on a range of problems: basic definitions of what a book is; statistical assumptions; and editorial methods used to define and collate the presumably basic unit of 'variant.' This work differs from other recent studies in print culture in its emphasis on fifteenth-century books and its insistence that the problems encountered in that historical milieu (problems as basic as cataloguing errors) are the same as problems encountered in other areas of literary criticism. The difficulties in the simplest of cataloguing decisions, argues Joseph Dane, tend to repeat themselves at all levels of bibliographical, editorial, and literary history.
Out of Sorts
Out of Sorts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out of Sorts write by Joseph A. Dane. This book was released on 2011-06-06. Out of Sorts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention to detail, Joseph A. Dane argues, we would find something else entirely: that a careful consideration of typography serves not as a material support to prevailing theories of print but, rather, as a recalcitrant counter-voice to them. In Out of Sorts Dane continues his examination of the ways in which the grand narratives of book history mask what we might actually learn by looking at books themselves. He considers the differences between internal and external evidence for the nature of the type used by Gutenberg and the curious disconnection between the two, and he explores how descriptions of typesetting devices from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been projected back onto the fifteenth to make the earlier period not more accessible but less. In subsequent chapters, he considers topics that include the modern mythologies of so-called gothic typefaces, the presence of nontypographical elements in typographical form, and the assumptions that underlie the electronic editions of a medieval poem or the visual representation of typographical history in nineteenth-century studies of the subject. Is Dane one of the most original or most traditional of historians of print? In Out of Sorts he demonstrates that it may well be possible to be both things at once.
Print Culture
Print Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Print Culture write by Frances Robertson. This book was released on 2013. Print Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. This book charts the elements involved in such claims through a method that examines the iconography of materials, marks and processes of print, and in this sense acknowledges McLuhan's notion of the medium as the bearer of meaning.
The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice write by Jason McElligott. This book was released on 2014-09-09. The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.
Print Culture and the Medieval Author
Print Culture and the Medieval Author - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Print Culture and the Medieval Author write by Alexandra Gillespie. This book was released on 2006-11-30. Print Culture and the Medieval Author available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the century after the arrival of printing in England. Her study is an important new contribution to the emerging 'sociology of the text' in English literary and historical studies.At the centre of this study is a familiar question: what is an author? The idea of the vernacular writer was already contested and unstable in medieval England; Gillespie demonstrates that in the late Middle Ages it was also a way for book producers and readers to mediate the risks - commercial, political, religious, and imaginative - involved in the publication of literary texts.Gillespie's discussion focuses on the changes associated with the shift to print, scribal precedents for these changes, and contemporary understanding of them. The treatment of texts associated with Chaucer and Lydgate is an index to the sometimes flexible, sometimes resistant responses of book printers, copyists, decorators, distributors, patrons, censors, owners, and readers to a gradual but profoundly influential bibliographical transition.The research is conducted across somewhat intractable boundaries. Gillespie writes about medieval and modern history; about manuscript and print; about canonical and marginal authors; about literary works and books as objects. In the process, she finds new meanings for some medieval vernacular texts and a new place for some old books in a history of English culture.
