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Télécharger le livre :  Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe
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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe


Daniel Bellingradt , Bernd-Christian Otto


This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles...

Parution : 2017-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Approaches to the History of Written Culture
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Approaches to the History of Written Culture


Martyn Lyons , Rita Marquilhas


This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of...

Parution : 2017-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Russian Book
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The New Russian Book


Birgitte Beck Pristed


This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in...

Parution : 2017-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Histories of Books
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The Global Histories of Books


Elleke Boehmer , Rouven Kunstmann , Priyasha Mukhopadhyay , Asha Rogers


This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical...

Parution : 2017-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities
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Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities


Collectif


This book addresses the gap between print and digital scholarly approaches by combining both praxis and theory in a case study of a new international collaborative digital project, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP). MAPP is an international...

Parution : 2017-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914
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The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789-1914


Márcia Abreu


This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore catalogues),...

Parution : 2017-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain


Anna Gasperini , Paul Raphael Rooney


This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and...

Parution : 2016-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement
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Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement


Marianne Martens


This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love.Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers,...

Parution : 2016-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Book in Africa
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The Book in Africa


C. Davis , D. Johnson


This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to...

Parution : 2015-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Consumable Texts in Contemporary India
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Consumable Texts in Contemporary India


S. Gupta


Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.

Parution : 2015-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Across Worlds
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Reading Across Worlds


B. Benwell , J. Procter


Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading...

Parution : 2014-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice
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The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice


Jason Mcelligott


This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of...

Parution : 2014-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary


G. Partington , A. Smyth


This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval...

Parution : 2014-09-09
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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