Breaking the Book E-Book

Laura Mandell

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Manifestos
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 348

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital' humanities.

• Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities'
• Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling   
• Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19^th-century emergence of mass print culture
• Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Acknowledgments

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PART I:

Pre-Bound

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Language by the Book

PART II:

Bound

2

Print Subjectivity, or the Case History

The Case History

Identification and Sympathy

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Distributed Reading, or the Critic Filter

Content

Medium

PART III:

Unbound

Conclusion

Discipline and Error: Now is not the worst …

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

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Figure A.1 A North Point Press Edition of

The Senses of Walden

by Stanley Cavell; photograph by Laura Mandell.

Chapter 01

Figure 1.1 Forms of life.

Chapter 02

Figure 2.1 Title Page of Moxon’s

Mechanick Exercises

: http://gateway.proquest.com.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:64157:155

Figure 2.2 Foulis title page.

Figure 2.3 James Watson’s

Art of Printing

.

Figure 2.4 Another Foulis title page.

Figure 2.5 Word frequency counts, Burrows.

Figure 2.6 Author’s uses of typical words, Burrows.

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Bell’s book box, for traveling.

Figure 3.2 The Stacks, photograph by Laura Mandell.

Conclusion

Figure C.1 Broken book,

Blindness and Insight.

Figure C.2 Broken book,

Blindness and Insight.

Figure C.3 Wordsworth and de Man’s quotation of Wordsworth, compared in JuXta.

Figure C.4 A live database window in “Now Analyze That.”

Figures C.5 Screenshot of the coded poem key.

Figures C.6 Screenshot of a coded poem.

Figure C.7 A coded and visualized poem.

Figure C.8 A reading and interpretation tool, Prism, developed by the Praxis graduate program at the University of Virginia.

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Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age

Laura Mandell

Breaking the Book

Print Humanities in the Digital Age

Laura Mandell

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Acknowledgments

This book has been a long time coming and has been interrupted by many life events, the best of which was a new job in which I became director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University. It is a joy to work here. I would like to thank the audiences who have heard bits of these arguments and responded to them over the last three years at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Victoria, University of Rochester, Ohio State University, University of South Carolina, University of Colorado, and University of Montréal. I would also like to thank Margaret Ezell who helped prevent some “howlers,” and who insisted that none remaining are hers. Crucially, I want to thank librarian Robert L. Crivelli, of Sam Houston State University’s Newton Gresham Library, who charged a book that I needed to his own card when I drove 50 miles to Huntsville, Texas, to get a copy, the day before Christmas vacation, on a day when much to my dismay no money could be taken for me to purchase a guest card: thank you again for trusting me, Robert; you helped me write this book. Deepest thanks always go to my husband, Gregory Gundzik, and my two beautiful and talented children, Josef and Julia Gundzik.

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Engagement with a single human artifact, in the palm of your hand, is the fundamental act of humanities scholarship. If the digital age is an age of abundance–let us teach attentiveness. (Nowviskie 2012)

The title of this manifesto, Breaking the Book, is meant to be tendentious, and it is meant as well to indicate a critical engagement with the book as a medium that may enable breaking its hold on us, on our thinking, written by a person who has been working in the field of digital humanities. But before I start criticizing, I must say: it is only the book medium that allows such critical thinking, including about itself, a fact that indicates possibility and limitation at the same time. The inability to understand their essential co-presence has impaired bookwork in literary criticism, especially over the last 10 years. And I have to say directly to the book before I start: that my criticism made here in this manifesto forebodes no severing of our loves.