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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.
Sommario
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- 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
Info autore
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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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.
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