Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects / edited by Evanghelia Stead.
Stead, Evanghelia, editor.
2018
Z4-Z15.2
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Title Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects / edited by Evanghelia Stead.
ISBN 9783319538327
3319538322
9783319538310
3319538314
3319538314
9783319538310
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53832-7
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 317 pages 31 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-53832-7 doi
9783319538310
Call Number Z4-Z15.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4094
Summary ?This volume is both original and useful. Whilst each of the essays in and of itself offers new research, the volume taken as a whole is a substantial contribution to book, image, and media history. It deliberately disrupts the idea of a unified field, demonstrating how both books and prints (sometimes combined within the same volume) act as agents between cultures.?? Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, University of Southern California, USA?Rather than ask the old questions,?what is a book? or?what is a print?, Stead and her collaborators want to know: what has been the use of this text-bearing object? What does it do? Applying those queries to all manner of media? made, found, used, and re-purposed? this new approach dissolves (and complicates) the distinction between the material and textual aspects of what we read, and encourages methodologies that cross the boundaries of discipline.?? Leslie Howsam, Emerita Distinguished University Professor, University of Windsor, Canada This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends,?high? and?low?. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead
Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects
Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen
Henrike Lähnemann
Chapter 3. How to Read the "Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier" (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript- Henrike Manuwald
Chapter 4. "Otium et negotium". Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism
Michael Stolz
Part II: Prints in Europe
Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: "Galeriewerke" and "Histoire Métallique"
Christina Posselt-Kuhli
Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe
Alberto Milano (
Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses
Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Book
Barbara Korte
Chapter 8. "Pinocchio": an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004)
Giorgio Bacci
Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions
Norbert Bachleitner
Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Epilogue
Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading -Stephan Packard.

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