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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.t935fh
- isbn: 9781783743636
- eisbn: 9791036516634
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literary criticism Digital scholarly editing composition textual criticism genetic criticism canonisation book design Literary Theory & Criticism LIT000000 DSSujets proches
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Hans Walter Gabler, « 15. Argument into Design: Editions as a Sub-Species of the Printed Book », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.t935fh
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The invention of printing constituted, as we know, a media watershed. Essentially, too, the invention of printing brought with it the invention of the book. The codex already existed, it is true, for hundreds of years in the time of manuscript culture. Still, for my present purposes it is convenient to maintain that the invention of printing also brought with it the invention of the cultural artefact of ‘the book’, as we know it. A function common to both manuscripts and books is that of tran...