The unfinished book / edited by Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch.
| Other author/creator | Gillespie, Alexandra. |
| Other author/creator | Lynch, Deidre. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | 2. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| Description | xvi, 509 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Literature |
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| Series | Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature. ^A1178570 |
| Contents | The unfinished book : introduction / Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch -- What is a book? / Brian Cummings -- The things books make / Lynn Festa -- Insides and outsides / Alberto Campagnolo -- Ordinatio : the arrangement of parts in a book / Andrew Kraebel -- Books on the loose / Meredith L. McGill -- The exuvial book / Jason Scott-Warren -- The book as fearful thing / Penny Fielding and Deidre Lynch -- Tangible Burns / Julia S. Carlson -- Book audio / Matthew Rubery -- Book faces / Jacqueline Goldsby -- The modernist picture book in three dimensions / Katie Trumpener -- "Reading" the book at exhibitions of contemporary global art / Anna Sigrídur Arnar -- Turk's-head knots / Alexandra Gillespie -- In the library / Stephanie Ann Frampton -- Pilgrims' texts / Anthony Bale -- Institutional forme / Jeffrey Todd Knight -- A library in progress / Melanie Chambliss -- An indigenous pipe bibliography / Caroline Wigginton -- Transatlantic traffic : Phillis Wheatley and her books / Joseph Rezek -- Books in ether / Priyasha Mukhopadhyay -- Reading platforms : a concise history of the electronic book / Dennis Yi Tenen -- Books in videogames / Adam Hammond -- Derrida's unfinished book / Juliet Fleming -- Notebooks : the Lichtenberg way / Simon Reader -- Remade / Luisa Calè -- Indexed / Rachel Sagner Buurma -- The date-stamped book / Andrew M. Stauffer -- How the virgin lost her book / Patricia Crain -- The mutilated text / Leah Whittington -- How the bookworm got its glasses, or, A natural history of bookishness / Mary A. Favret and Sarah Ross -- Book microbiomes / Joshua Calhoun -- Indigenous people and the written word / Linc Kesler. |
| Abstract | 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,0as 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.0The 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780191904172 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020946851 |
| ISBN | 9780198830801 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0198830807 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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