| Description |
1 online resource (528 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature |
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Oxford handbooks online |
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Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature.
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Oxford handbooks online.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The Unfinished Book / Alexandra Gillespie, Deidre Lynch -- Book Audio / Matthew Rubery -- Book Faces / Jacqueline Goldsby -- The Modernist Picture Book in Three Dimensions / Katie Trumpener -- / Anna Sigrídur Arnar -- Turk's-Head Knots / Alexandra Gillespie -- In the Library / Stephanie Ann Frampton -- Pilgrims' Texts / Anthony Bale -- Institutional Forme / Jeffrey Todd Knight -- A Library in Progress / Melanie Chambliss -- An Indigenous Pipe Bibliography / Caroline Wigginton -- What is a Book? / Brian Cummings -- Transatlantic Traffic: Phillis Wheatley and Her Books / Joseph Rezek -- Books in Ether / Priyasha Mukhopadyay -- Reading Platforms: A Concise History of the Electronic Book / Dennis Yi Tenen -- Books in Videogames / Adam Hammond -- Derrida's Unfinished Book / Juliet Fleming -- Notebooks: The Lichtenberg Way / Simon Reader -- Remade / Luisa Calè -- Indexed / Rachel Sagner Buurma -- The Date-Stamped Book / Andrew M. Stauffer -- How the Virgin Lost Her Book / Patricia Crain -- The Things Books Make / Lynn Festa -- The Mutilated Text / Leah Jane Whittington -- How the Bookworm Got its Glasses, or a Natural History of Bookishness / Mary A. Favret, Sarah Ross -- Book Microbiomes / Joshua Michael Calhoun -- Indigenous Peoples and Books / Roland Lincoln Kesler -- Insides and Outsides / Alberto Campagnolo -- Ordinatio: The Arrangement of Parts in a Book / Andrew Kraebel -- Books on the Loose / Meredith L. McGill -- The Exuvial Book / Jason Scott-Warren -- The Book as Fearful Thing / Penny Fielding, Deidre Lynch -- Tangible Burns / Julia S. Carlson |
| Summary |
Assessing a wide variety of particular books, book-like objects, and book collections, and working with millennia of variable and conflicting definitions of the book and its purposes, The Unfinished Book surveys the many things that books have been, and uncovers why the book's grip on the cultural imagination remains so tenacious |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2020) |
| Subject |
Books -- History.
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Books
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gillespie, Alexandra, editor
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Lynch, Deidre, editor
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| ISBN |
9780191904172 |
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0191904171 |
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