Publication

2020 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781108477697
  • ISBN-101108477690
  • WikidataQ109762860
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019039810
  • OCLC Control Number1119639106
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781108477697
  • Open LibraryOL28062966M

Classifications

  • LCCZ340.R534 2020
  • LCCZ340 .R534 2020

Description

"One of the most fertile developments in book history in recent years has been the study of the connections between books and the social contexts in which they originated and were used. This social turn is linked closely with the inaugural Panizzi lectures given in the British Library by Don McKenzie in 1985. In this landmark series, entitled 'Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts', McKenzie challenged a traditional view that bibliography is concerned only with signs written or printed on paper or vellum, and not with their meaning. Rather, he proposed, bibliography should comprehend 'not only the technical but the social processes' of the transmission of texts, 'the human motives and interactions which texts involve at every stage of their production, transmission, and consumption'. In short, it should take account of 'the role of human agents'"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance ItalyCambridge University Press2020-01-01

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