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How the page matters / Bonnie Mak.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z246 .M33 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mak, Bonnie.
- Series:
- Studies in book and print culture
- Studies in book and print culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--Format--History.
- Books.
- Book design--History.
- Book design.
- History.
- Graphic design (Typography)--History.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Books--Format.
- Buonaccorso, da Montemagno, approximately 1391-1429. Controversia de nobilitate.
- Buonaccorso.
- Controversia de nobilitate (Buonaccorso, da Montemagno).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 129 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.
- Summary:
- "From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information. Mak examines the fifteenth-century Latin text Controversia de nobilitate in three forms: as a manuscript, a printed work, and a digital edition. Transcending boundaries of time and language, How the Page Matters connects technology with tradition using innovative new media theories. While historicizing contemporary digital culture and asking how on-screen combinations of image and text affect the way conveyed information is understood, Mak's elegant analysis proves both the timeliness of studying interface design and the persistence of the page as a communication mechanism."--Pub. desc.
- Contents:
- Architectures of the page
- Reading the page
- The paratext and the page
- Reading the library
- The digital page
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780802097606
- 080209760X
- 9781442615359
- 1442615354
- OCLC:
- 693814340
- Publisher Number:
- 99993245803
- 40019955968
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