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1 Online-Ressource (130 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511483226
Content:
In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of their new readers these new forms constitute vital evidence for any history of reading. McKenzie shows this is true of all forms of recorded information, including sound, graphics, films, representations of landscape and the new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book, which incorporates McKenzie's classic work on orality and literacy in early New Zealand, offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Bibliography and the sociology of texts -- The sociology of a text.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521642583
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521644952
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521642583
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511483226
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