Studies in Book and Print Culture – serie
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133 produkter
'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675
Inbunden, 2005
799 kr
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The mass production and dissemination of printed materials were unparalleled in England during the 1640s and 50s. While theatrical performance traditionally defined literary culture, print steadily gained ground, becoming more prevalent and enabling the formation of various networks of writers, …
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Av Gail Edwards, Judith Saltman
Häftad, 2010
587 kr
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The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of …
Future of the Page
Av Peter Stoicheff, Andrew Taylor
Häftad, 2004
541 kr
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The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated, and how the audience accesses that information.Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays …
No Trespassing
Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization
Häftad, 2004
442 kr
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In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as a …
Myth of Print Culture
Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method
Inbunden, 2003
1021 kr
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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 …
No Trespassing
Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization
Inbunden, 2004
790 kr
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In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as a …
Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2008
796 kr
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Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study …
Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator
Inbunden, 2007
909 kr
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Although there is abundant evidence that silent reading existed in antiquity, the question remains as to when it became widespread. Silent Reading and the Birth of the Narrator asserts that, due to a rise in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries in the number of parents who could …
Unpopular Culture
Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s
Av Bart Beaty
Häftad, 2007
500 kr
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In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic …
Old Books and New Histories
An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture
Häftad, 2006
363 kr
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Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, …
Reading Women
Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present
Av Janet Badia, Jennifer Phegley
Häftad, 2006
508 kr
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Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and …
New Canadian Library
The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978
Inbunden, 2007
702 kr
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In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary …
Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Inbunden, 2012
619 kr
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Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of …
Jazz Age Barcelona
Inbunden, 2009
814 kr
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One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the …
Feminist Literary Magazines, Editors, and the Politics of Cultural Production in Canada, 1970-2000
Inbunden, 2026
862 kr
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The first comprehensive study of five feminist publications – Room of One’s Own, Contemporary Verse 2, Fireweed, Tessera, and (f).Lip – this book shares the story of a vibrant and transformative publishing force within Canadian print culture. Drawing on full runs of feminist magazines and …
Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text
Av Darcy Cullen
Häftad, 2012
442 kr
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An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons. A dynamic social network of authors, editors, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, printers, and marketers must work together to turn a manuscript into a book.Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text explores the theories and …
How the Page Matters
Av Bonnie Mak
Häftad, 2012
338 kr
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From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has …
Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures
Häftad, 2013
394 kr
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The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have …
New Bibliopolis
French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914
Häftad, 2013
454 kr
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The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated …
Pulpit, Press, and Politics
Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada
E-bok, 2019
367 kr
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When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell …
Pulpit, Press, and Politics
Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada
E-bok, 2019
375 kr
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When American Methodist preachers first arrived in Upper Canada in the 1790s, they brought with them more than an alluring religious faith. They also brought saddlebags stuffed with books published by the New York Methodist Book Concern – North America’s first denominational publisher – to sell …
No Trespassing
Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization
E-bok, 2004
581 kr
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In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as a …
Picturing Canada
A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing
Av Gail Edwards, Judith Saltman
E-bok, 2014
769 kr
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The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of …
Book Unbound
Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Av Siân Echard, Stephen Partridge
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate …
Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
Av James J. Connolly, Patrick Collier m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
1275 kr
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Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller …
Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis
Av James J. Connolly, Patrick Collier m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
1387 kr
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Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history, library studies, and communications, Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis rejects the idea that print culture necessarily spreads outwards from capitals and cosmopolitan cities and focuses attention to how the residents of smaller …
Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition
E-bok, 2006
1181 kr
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In late 1804, William Blackwood established a small publishing and bookselling firm in Edinburgh. Over the next 175 years, William Blackwood & Sons became one of the leading publishers in Britain, enjoying both local and international success. Early on it championed the works of Scottish writers, …
New Canadian Library
The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978
E-bok, 2015
581 kr
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In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary …
Prison of Love
Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century
Inbunden, 2017
1037 kr
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The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.In The Prison of Love, Emily …
Prison of Love
Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century
E-bok, 2018
1312 kr
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The Spanish romance Cárcel de amor blossomed into a transnational and multilingual phenomenon that captivated audiences throughout Europe at a time when literacy was expanding and print production was changing the nature of reading, writing, and of literature itself.In The Prison of Love, Emily …
