Unprinted - Publication Beyond the Press

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.

List of contents

Foreword; 1. What are publication and the press?; Publication in ancient Greece and Rome: no print in sight, by Daria Kohler; Manuscripts in Germany in response to print, by Natascha Domeisen; Performance as publication in the eighteenth century, by Katie Noble; 2. Personal agency and its limits; Carols, authorship and agency, by Micah Mackay; Limits of agency in Athenian inscriptions, by Edward Jones; AI and agency in journalism, by Felix M. Simon; 3. Public and private spheres; Public and private spheres at Saffron Monastery, by Rosie Maxton; Communicating in and beyond the monastery in Tibet, by Daniel Wojahn; Reading publics and the Elizabethan succession, by Daniel Haywood; Samuel Beckett and 'The Life of the Afterlife', by Brian M. Moore; 4. Conclusion.

Summary

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.

Product details

• Authors: Natascha Domeisen, Daniel Haywood, Edward Jones, Daria Kohler, Daria (Ku Leuven) Wakelin Kohler, Micah Mackay, Rosie Maxton, Brian M. Moore, Katie Noble, Felix M. Simon, Daniel Wakelin, Wakelin Daniel, Daniel Wojahn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009545310
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954531-0
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade