The book / Amaranth Borsuk
- Bib ID:
- 7762909
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Borsuk, Amaranth, 1980-, author
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- Description:
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
- ©2018
- 1 online resource () : illustrations.
- ISBN:
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- 9780262346887 ((electronic bk.))
- 0262346885 ((electronic bk.))
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9780262535410
- 0262535416
- Series:
- MIT Press essential knowledge series.
- Full contents:
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- Intro; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 THE BOOK AS OBJECT; The Original Tablet; The Papyrus Scroll; Mineral, Vegetable, Animal; The Alphabet; Scrolls and the Advent of Paper; Paper and Islam's Golden Age; A Networked Text; From Roll to Accordion to Codex; The Manuscript Tradition; Reading and Writing's Shifts; 2 THE BOOK AS CONTENT; Starting the Presses; Type's Founding; The Press Itself; The Body of the Book; Opening the Book; The Intimate Book; Type and Face; The Aldine Revolution and Portable Libraries; Intellectual Property; The Crystal Goblet; 3 THE BOOK AS IDEA
- Defining the Artist's BookWilliam Blake's "Illuminated Printing"; An Aside on Printing Methods: Intaglio and Relief Printing; Stéphane Mallarmé's Book as "Spiritual Instrument"; Ed Ruscha's Democratic Multiples; The New Art of Making Books; The Book's Ideas; The Book as Virtual Reality; The Book as Cinematic Space; The Book as Recombinant Structure; The Book as Ephemeral; The Book as Mute Object; 4 THE BOOK AS INTERFACE; Talking Books; Digital Affordances; Project Gutenberg (E-texts and E-books); The Internet Archive; Google Books; E-readers; Bookish Paratexts
- Interactivity and the Digital BookColophon or Incipit?; CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FURTHER READING AND WRITING; Further Reading; Further Writing; INDEX; ABOUT AUTHOR
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Books
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- EBSCOhost
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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