Book ID: CBB318023201

Text Technologies: A History (2019)

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Treharne, Elaine (Author)
Willan, Claude (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 226
Language: English

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication—perhaps as early as 60,000 BCE—to the present day. At its core, it examines the material history of communication: what constitutes a text, the purposes for which it is intended, how it functions, and the social ends that it serves. This coursebook can be used to support any pedagogical or research activities in text technologies, the history of the book, the history of information, and textually based work in the digital humanities. Through careful explanations of the field, examinations of terminology and themes, and illustrated case studies of diverse texts—from the Cyrus cylinder to the Eagles' "Hotel California"—Elaine Treharne and Claude Willan offer a clear yet nuanced overview of how humans convey meaning. Text Technologies will enable students and teachers to generate multiple lines of inquiry into how communication—its production, form and materiality, and reception—is crucial to any interpretation of culture, history, and society.

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Authors & Contributors
Misa, Thomas J.
Gianenrico Bernasconi
Chapman, Anne
Hume, Natalie
Devine, Kyle
Skeehan, Danielle C.
Concepts
Technology and society
Technology and culture
Materiality
Technology, general histories
Communication technology
Methods of communication; media
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Places
Atlantic world
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Germany
China
Great Britain
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