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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"history of the book"”.
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The Book as a Cultural Object: Exploring the Symbolism of Artist's Books
<p>Contemporary artists books developed as part of the Conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This is a complex, intellectual art form, and in many instances these works of art do not necessarily resemble a traditional book. Artists use the cultural symbolism associated with reading, …
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
<p>This dissertation traces the role of unauthorized publication in the posthumous construction of British Romanticism as a literary movement. It argues that Romantic ideology emerged from conflicting claims about the nature of intellectual property and the circulation of political and artistic …
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Anglo-Scottish succession tracts during the late Elizabethan period, 1595-1603
This study seeks to examine the way in which contemporaries of James VI defended his right to the English throne in succession literature, during the ‘last decade’ of Elizabeth I’s reign. Five succession tracts written or published in Scotland in the 1590’s that discuss the right of James VI to the …
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Curating a Gentleman's Library: Practices of Acquisition, Display and Disposal in the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816
This thesis examines the book and archival holdings of the Cottonian Collection – a national designated eighteenth-century collection of fine art and books – between 1791 and 1816, the period of William Cotton II’s custodianship. Prior to this thesis, the Cottonian Collection has not been the …
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Lo studio delle provenienze degli incunaboli posseduti dalle Biblioteche riunite «Civica e A. Ursino Recupero»
Lo studio si concentra sul rilevamento e l'analisi dei dati di provenienza desumibili dal fondo di incunaboli posseduti dalle Biblioteche riunite «Civica e A. Ursino Recupero» di Catania, allo scopo di comprendere la formazione della collezione e inserire tale processo nel contesto più ampio della …
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Freeing Maya Angelou's Caged Bird
This study involves a comprehensive examination of one book, Maya Angelou's autobiographical I Know Why Why the Caged Bird Sings, since it was first published in 1970. Recognized as an important literary work, the novel is used in many middle and secondary school classrooms throughout the united …
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
<p>My dissertation, The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900, examines how and why the novel has assimilated visual mediums—film, art, and the digital—into the genre as a means of adapting to the proliferation of mass media and technology. This project connects a history of the novel …
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Reading the map: geographic space, reading publics, and the shaping of nineteenth-century American identity, 1803-1898
In The Shaping of America, historical geographer D. W. Meinig explores some geopolitical “might-have-beens” to suggest that alternative imaginings are useful because they “jar us out of habits of mind, loosen images so familiar, so constantly put before us, so deeply imprinted on our national …
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Reading for Health: Bibliotherapy and the Medicalized Humanities in the United States, 1930-1965
In this dissertation, I tell the story of midcentury attempts to establish, develop, and study bibliotherapy in the US. I follow three groups-hospital librarians, psychologists and psychiatrists, and language arts educators-from the 1930s to the 1960s, when each in its own ways expressed belief in …
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Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
… Septuagint lexicography using case studies from the Greek version of Judges. The first chapter outlines the state of the question on the textual history of Judges in Hebrew and Greek, and also presents my lexicographical method and related matters. Chapter two surveys the history of Septuagint …
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The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments of These Latter Perilous Days Touching on the Matters of the Church is without doubt one of the most influential books of the English Reformation. Under its more colloquial name, “Foxe’s Book of Martyrs,” there is hardly a student of English literature or history who …
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Consciousness and death in James Joyce's Dubliners
The purpose of this thesis is to establish the fact that a single protagonist exists in James Joyce's Dubliners, that Joyce masks the enduring Dubliner-consciousness under the guises of various protagonists, and that this consciousness develops and matures within the many lives Joyce traces in his …
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IL CIMENTO DEL LIBRO ELETTRONICO: L'EDITORIA DALLA 'DEMOCRATIZZAZIONE' DEL COMPUTER AL WEB 2.0.
The subject of this study is the revolution triggered by the absorption of computing logic and tools within the so-called publishing industry, which began in Italy, as well as in the rest of the Western world, during the 1970s. The focus is particularly on the informatization of the "book", meaning …
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James Magee (1707-1797) and the Belfast print trade, 1771-1781
This thesis investigates the Belfast printer James Magee (1707-1797) and assesses his contribution towards the Belfast book trade in the eighteenth century. The first chapter discusses the peripheral nature of Belfast printing, outlining the details of Magee’s career (1735-1791) and examining his …
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The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
<p>This dissertation answers the question, “How were scribes in the ancient world trained?” The following social history elevates the marginalized voices of ancient scribes, emphasizing their personhood and their agency as human individuals. Chapter 1 establishes the scope of the thesis along with …
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Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
<p>This study locates a medieval poetics of lineation in the manuscript and early print reception of fifteenth-century Middle English penitential poems. I investigate three exemplary poems of penitential devotion alongside modern theories of the poetic line, combining approaches from cultural …
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The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress.
… Weekly</em> ran a story foreshadowing the transformation of the City of New York from the island of Manhattan to a massive metropolis, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Another article on the page announced that Martha J. Lamb “has become editor of the ‘The Magazine of American …
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The use of French as a written language of instruction in twelfth-century England, with particular reference to the codicological evidence
Anglo-Norman England made use of three languages: Latin, English, and French. Its literary culture was heir to the bilingual written tradition of late Anglo-Saxon England, which produced and copied literature in Latin as well as in the (spoken) vernacular, Old English. From at least the beginning …
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Knygotyra Rusijoje XX a.: mokslo organizacinis aspektas /
Russian school of book science attributed to the Continental European bibliography school is at present one of the strongest since it has deep traditions of this science which have for a long time been influencing (and are still influencing) the development of the book science in the neighboring …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
The first rule of writing is an important one: writers should not plagiarize; what they write should be their own. It is taken for granted. But who made the rule? Why? And how is it enforced? This dissertation traces the history of proprietary authorship from the earliest distinctions between …
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