Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by Stead, Evanghelia

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319538310)

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Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by Stead, Evanghelia

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

$139.99
Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects by Stead, Evanghelia

Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects

$139.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward.

An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, 'high' and 'low'. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.


Author: Evanghelia Stead
ISBN-10: 3319538314
ISBN-13: 9783319538310
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2018
Pages: 317
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d
By Evanghelia Stead
By Evanghelia Stead
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Evanghelia Stead is Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France and Comparative Literature Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin (UVSQ), France. She runs the TIGRE seminar at the ﾉcole Normale Sup駻ieure, Paris, France. She has published extensively on print culture, iconography, reception, myth, the fin-de-si鐵le, and the 'Thousand and Second Night' literary tradition.

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