The visible text : textual production and reproduction from Beowulf to Maus /
"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 peopl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford textual perspectives.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 182 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199603169 (hbk.) 0199603162 (hbk.) 9780199603152 (pbk.) 0199603154 (pbk.) |