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The visible text : textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus / Thomas A. Bredehoft.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bredehoft, Thomas A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford textual perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--History.
- Books.
- History.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Physical Description:
- 182 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Covering materials ranging from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and inscribed objects to contemporary comics, The Visible Text rewrites the history of textual media and technologies. Arguing that media are not defined by technologies alone, but by a combination of technologies and the ideas that people hold about those technologies, Bredehoft identifies four distinct periods or domains in the history of English literature that correspond to four ways in which media ideologies interacted with the two basic defining technologies of manuscripts and printed books."--back cover.
- Contents:
- 1 Anglo-Saxon Textual Production 23
- Interlude 1 Anglo-Saxon to Gothic 58
- 2 Gothic Textual Reproduction 61
- Interlude 2 Gothic to Print 95
- 3 Typographic Print Reproduction 97
- Interlude 3 Print to Comics 126
- 4 Comics Textual Production 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199603169
- 0199603162
- 9780199603152
- 0199603154
- OCLC:
- 869525975
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