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Unfinished Book

Gillespie Alexandra Lynch Deidre
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198830801
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1139 gr
Høyde
255 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
526

Redaktør
Gillespie Alexandra
Lynch Deidre

Biographical note

Alexandra Gillespie is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a member of Toronto's Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture and its Centre for Medieval Studies. At Toronto Gillespie also directs the Mellon Foundation-supported Old Books New Science Laboratory. Her publications include Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books (Oxford, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011). A new monograph, Chaucer's Books, is forthcoming in 2021. Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her numerous publications on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, culture, and reading communities include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (Chicago, 2015), The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Chicago, 1998), as editor, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton, 2000) and, as co-editor, Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke, 1996). She is currently completing Paper Slips: Disassembling and Remaking the Book.

Unfinished Book

Gillespie Alexandra Lynch Deidre
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
Gillespie Alexandra Lynch Deidre
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
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This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The contributors to The Unfinished Book identify the many ways in which study of books -- of their compounding of matter and meaning, of their global travels and historical transitions, of their shaping of and by new media technologies -- remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally, and literary studies in particular. The collection's 32 chapters demonstrate in tandem how much book history has to gain in turn from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Book studies thus intersects here with scholarship on empire, the environment, disability, and affect, as well as with work in African-American and Indigenous studies. Literary study is uniquely positioned, this collection asserts, to honour books' distinctive ways of both meaning things and being things. The chapters span a terrain that extends from the earliest surviving writings of the Indus Valley to Cicero's 1st-century B.C.E. library to the latest videogames. Some model new ways of thinking about the form, edges, and boundaries of the book as they demonstrate how seldom the book's history as a material object is terminated at the moment of its manufacture. Other chapters highlight the provisionality that makes the book's conceptual boundaries fuzzy, unfinished, and variable; many seek to overturn triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though it were Western and white. Overall, this collection launches a new generation of scholarship as it introduces provocative new approaches about the nature, place, and time of books.
Les mer
Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious.
Les mer
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch: Introduction -- The Unfinished Book Part I -- What is a Book? 1: Brian Cummings: What is a Book? 2: Lynn Festa: The Things Books Make 3: Alberto Campagnolo: Insides and Outsides 4: Andrew Kraebel: Ordinatio: The Arrangement of Parts in a Book 5: Meredith L. McGill: Books on the Loose 6: Jason Scott-Warren: The Exuvial Book 7: Penny Fielding and Deidre Lynch: The Book as Fearful Thing 8: Julia S. Carlson: Tangible Burns 9: Matthew Rubery: Book Audio 10: Jacqueline Goldsby: Book Faces 11: Katie Trumpener: The Modernist Picture Book in Three Dimensions 12: Anna Sigrídur Arnar: Reading the Book at Exhibitions of Contemporary Global Art Part II -- Where is a Book? 13: Alexandra Gillespie: Turk s-Head Knots 14: Stephanie Ann Frampton: In the Library 15: Anthony Bale: Pilgrims Texts 16: Jeffrey Todd Knight: Institutional Forme 17: Melanie Chambliss: A Library in Progress 18: Caroline Wigginton: An Indigenous Pipe Bibliography 19: Joseph Rezek: Transatlantic Traffic: Phillis Wheatley and Her Books 20: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: Books in Ether 21: Dennis Yi Tenen: Reading Platforms: A Concise History of the Electronic Book 22: Adam Hammond: Books in Videogames Part III -- When is a Book? 23: Juliet Fleming: Derrida s Unfinished Book 24: Simon Reader: Notebooks: The Lichtenberg Way 25: Luisa Calè: Remade 26: Rachel Sagner Buurma: Indexed 27: Andrew M. Stauffer: The Date-Stamped Book 28: Patricia Crain: How the Virgin Lost Her Book 29: Leah Whittington: The Mutilated Text 30: Mary A. Favret and Sarah Ross: How the Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness 31: Joshua Calhoun: Book Microbiomes 32: Linc Kesler: Indigenous Peoples and Books Index
Les mer
Demonstrates how much book history has to gain from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Thinks expansively about the history and nature of the book, assessing a remarkably diverse variety of book types and book cultures from a broad range of methodological perspectives. Provides a new account of the book's defining unfinishedness, highlighting the provisionality and dynamism that have made and make the conceptual boundaries of the book indistinct and variable. Showcases new work and new questions, identifying debates about books' nature, affordances, and ends.
Les mer
Alexandra Gillespie is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a member of Toronto's Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture and its Centre for Medieval Studies. At Toronto Gillespie also directs the Mellon Foundation-supported Old Books New Science Laboratory. Her publications include Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books (Oxford, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011). A new monograph, Chaucer's Books, is forthcoming in 2021. Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her numerous publications on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, culture, and reading communities include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (Chicago, 2015), The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Chicago, 1998), as editor, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton, 2000) and, as co-editor, Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke, 1996). She is currently completing Paper Slips: Disassembling and Remaking the Book.
Les mer
Demonstrates how much book history has to gain from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Thinks expansively about the history and nature of the book, assessing a remarkably diverse variety of book types and book cultures from a broad range of methodological perspectives. Provides a new account of the book's defining unfinishedness, highlighting the provisionality and dynamism that have made and make the conceptual boundaries of the book indistinct and variable. Showcases new work and new questions, identifying debates about books' nature, affordances, and ends.
Les mer

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Optional. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

M. C. Cohen, UCLA, CHOICE

This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The contributors to The Unfinished Book identify the many ways in which study of books -- of their compounding of matter and meaning, of their global travels and historical transitions, of their shaping of and by new media technologies -- remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally, and literary studies in particular. The collection's 32 chapters demonstrate in tandem how much book history has to gain in turn from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Book studies thus intersects here with scholarship on empire, the environment, disability, and affect, as well as with work in African-American and Indigenous studies. Literary study is uniquely positioned, this collection asserts, to honour books' distinctive ways of both meaning things and being things. The chapters span a terrain that extends from the earliest surviving writings of the Indus Valley to Cicero's 1st-century B.C.E. library to the latest videogames. Some model new ways of thinking about the form, edges, and boundaries of the book as they demonstrate how seldom the book's history as a material object is terminated at the moment of its manufacture. Other chapters highlight the provisionality that makes the book's conceptual boundaries fuzzy, unfinished, and variable; many seek to overturn triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though it were Western and white. Overall, this collection launches a new generation of scholarship as it introduces provocative new approaches about the nature, place, and time of books.
Les mer
Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious.
Les mer
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch: Introduction -- The Unfinished Book Part I -- What is a Book? 1: Brian Cummings: What is a Book? 2: Lynn Festa: The Things Books Make 3: Alberto Campagnolo: Insides and Outsides 4: Andrew Kraebel: Ordinatio: The Arrangement of Parts in a Book 5: Meredith L. McGill: Books on the Loose 6: Jason Scott-Warren: The Exuvial Book 7: Penny Fielding and Deidre Lynch: The Book as Fearful Thing 8: Julia S. Carlson: Tangible Burns 9: Matthew Rubery: Book Audio 10: Jacqueline Goldsby: Book Faces 11: Katie Trumpener: The Modernist Picture Book in Three Dimensions 12: Anna Sigrídur Arnar: Reading the Book at Exhibitions of Contemporary Global Art Part II -- Where is a Book? 13: Alexandra Gillespie: Turk s-Head Knots 14: Stephanie Ann Frampton: In the Library 15: Anthony Bale: Pilgrims Texts 16: Jeffrey Todd Knight: Institutional Forme 17: Melanie Chambliss: A Library in Progress 18: Caroline Wigginton: An Indigenous Pipe Bibliography 19: Joseph Rezek: Transatlantic Traffic: Phillis Wheatley and Her Books 20: Priyasha Mukhopadhyay: Books in Ether 21: Dennis Yi Tenen: Reading Platforms: A Concise History of the Electronic Book 22: Adam Hammond: Books in Videogames Part III -- When is a Book? 23: Juliet Fleming: Derrida s Unfinished Book 24: Simon Reader: Notebooks: The Lichtenberg Way 25: Luisa Calè: Remade 26: Rachel Sagner Buurma: Indexed 27: Andrew M. Stauffer: The Date-Stamped Book 28: Patricia Crain: How the Virgin Lost Her Book 29: Leah Whittington: The Mutilated Text 30: Mary A. Favret and Sarah Ross: How the Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness 31: Joshua Calhoun: Book Microbiomes 32: Linc Kesler: Indigenous Peoples and Books Index
Les mer
Demonstrates how much book history has to gain from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Thinks expansively about the history and nature of the book, assessing a remarkably diverse variety of book types and book cultures from a broad range of methodological perspectives. Provides a new account of the book's defining unfinishedness, highlighting the provisionality and dynamism that have made and make the conceptual boundaries of the book indistinct and variable. Showcases new work and new questions, identifying debates about books' nature, affordances, and ends.
Les mer
Alexandra Gillespie is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a member of Toronto's Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture and its Centre for Medieval Studies. At Toronto Gillespie also directs the Mellon Foundation-supported Old Books New Science Laboratory. Her publications include Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books (Oxford, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011). A new monograph, Chaucer's Books, is forthcoming in 2021. Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her numerous publications on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, culture, and reading communities include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (Chicago, 2015), The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Chicago, 1998), as editor, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton, 2000) and, as co-editor, Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke, 1996). She is currently completing Paper Slips: Disassembling and Remaking the Book.
Les mer
Demonstrates how much book history has to gain from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Thinks expansively about the history and nature of the book, assessing a remarkably diverse variety of book types and book cultures from a broad range of methodological perspectives. Provides a new account of the book's defining unfinishedness, highlighting the provisionality and dynamism that have made and make the conceptual boundaries of the book indistinct and variable. Showcases new work and new questions, identifying debates about books' nature, affordances, and ends.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198830801
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1139 gr
Høyde
255 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
526

Redaktør
Gillespie Alexandra
Lynch Deidre

Biographical note

Alexandra Gillespie is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a member of Toronto's Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture and its Centre for Medieval Studies. At Toronto Gillespie also directs the Mellon Foundation-supported Old Books New Science Laboratory. Her publications include Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books (Oxford, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Production of Books in England, 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2011). A new monograph, Chaucer's Books, is forthcoming in 2021. Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature at Harvard. Her numerous publications on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century literature, culture, and reading communities include Loving Literature: A Cultural History (Chicago, 2015), The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Chicago, 1998), as editor, Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (Princeton, 2000) and, as co-editor, Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke, 1996). She is currently completing Paper Slips: Disassembling and Remaking the Book.

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