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The Unfinished Book (Hardcover, 1)
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The Unfinished Book (Hardcover, 1)
Series: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
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This collection is founded on the premise that the physical book is
far from exhausted as informational medium, art object, or
conceptual resource. The contributors to The Unfinished Book
identify the many ways in which study of books - of their
compounding of matter and meaning, of their global travels and
historical transitions, of their shaping of and by new media
technologies - remains unfinished business for humanist scholarship
generally, and literary studies in particular. The collection's 32
chapters demonstrate in tandem how much book history has to gain in
turn from engaging the most vital and innovative literary-critical
modes of the 21st-century. Book studies thus intersects here with
scholarship on empire, the environment, disability, and affect, as
well as with work in African-American and Indigenous studies.
Literary study is uniquely positioned, this collection asserts, to
honour books' distinctive ways of both meaning things and being
things. The chapters span a terrain that extends from the earliest
surviving writings of the Indus Valley to Cicero's 1st-century
B.C.E. library to the latest videogames. Some model new ways of
thinking about the form, edges, and boundaries of the book as they
demonstrate how seldom the book's history as a material object is
terminated at the moment of its manufacture. Other chapters
highlight the provisionality that makes the book's conceptual
boundaries fuzzy, unfinished, and variable; many seek to overturn
triumphalist histories that recount the story of the book as though
it were Western and white. Overall, this collection launches a new
generation of scholarship as it introduces provocative new
approaches about the nature, place, and time of books.
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