The Future of the Page / Peter Stoicheff, Andrew Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stoicheff, Peter.

Taylor, Andrew.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture.

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Format--History.

Books.

Manuscript design--History.

Manuscript design.

Literacy--History.

Literacy.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated, and how the audience accesses that information.Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays that presents the best of recent critical theory on the history and future of the page and its enormous influence on Western thought and culture. Spanning the centuries between the earliest record of the page and current computerized conceptions of page-like entities, the essays examine the size of the page, its relative dimensions, materials, design, and display of information.The page is broadly defined, allowing the volume to explore topics ranging from medieval manuscripts to non-European alternatives to the page, Algonquin symbolic literacy, and hypertext. This thought-provoking collection will appeal to literary scholars, book historians, graphic designers, and those interested in the impact of evolving print technologies on intellectual and cultural life.

Contents:

Architectures, ideologies, and materials of the page / Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor

Turning the page / Alberto Manguel

Decolonizing the medieval page / John Dagenais

Back to the future

littorally : annotating the historical page / William W.E. Slights

Nicholas Jenson and the form of the Renaissance printed page / David R. Carlson

Print culture and decolonizing the university : indigenizing the page : part 1 / Marie Battiste

Print culture and decolonizing the university : indigenizing the page : part 2 / L.M. Findlay

Visible and invisible books : hermetic images in n-dimensional space / Jerome McGann

James Joyce's Ulysses on the page and on the screen / Michael Groden

Our bodies are not final / Edison del Canto

Processual page : materiality and consciousness in print and hypertext / Joseph Tabbi

Virtually human : the electronic page, the archived body, and human identity / Allison Muri

Artist's pages : decolonizing tactics in 'Writing space' / Lynne Bell.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5940-8

1-4426-5725-1

OCLC:

1004879875