UNFINISHED BOOK O21AL C

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-883080-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1077 g

This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or conceptual resource. The contributors to The Unfinished Book identify the many ways in which study of books -- of their compounding of matter and meaning, of their global travels and historical transitions, of their shaping of and by new media technologies -- remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship generally, and literary studies in particular. The collection's 32 chapters demonstrate in tandem how much book history has to gain in turn from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical modes of the 21st-century. Book studies thus intersects here with scholarship on empire, the environment, disability, and affect, as well as with work in African-American and Indigenous studies. Literary study is uniquely positioned, this collection asserts, to honour books' distinctive ways of both meaning things and being things.

The chapters span a terrain that extends from the earliest surviving writings of the Indus Valley to Cicero's 1st-century B.C.E. library to the latest videogames. Some model new ways of thinking about the form, edges, and boundaries of the book as they demonstrate how seldom the book's history as a material object is terminated at the moment of its manufacture. Other chapters highlight the provisionality that makes the book's conceptual boundaries fuzzy, unfinished, and variable; many seek to overturn triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though it were Western and white. Overall, this collection launches a new generation of scholarship as it introduces provocative new approaches about the nature, place, and time of books.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gillespie, Lynch

Gillespie, Alexandra

Lynch, Deidre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.