Bibliography and the Sociology of TextsCambridge University Press, 16.09.1999 - 130 Seiten In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of their new readers these new forms constitute vital evidence for any history of reading. McKenzie shows this is true of all forms of recorded information, including sound, graphics, films, representations of landscape and the new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book, which incorporates McKenzie's classic work on orality and literacy in early New Zealand, offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships. |
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| 1 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF TEXTS | 7 |
Dedication | 8 |
1 The book as an expressive form | 9 |
nonbook texts | 31 |
3 The dialectics of bibliography now | 55 |
ORAL CULTURE LITERACY AND PRINT IN EARLY NEW ZEALAND | 77 |
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Apollodorus archive authority biblio bibliography British Library Church Missionary Society Citizen Kane Colenso complex Congreve Congreve’s construction context conventions copy course critical theory culture discipline distinct document edition English versions epigraph essay European evidence example expressive February film forms of text function graphic Henry Williams Hobson human ibid implies intention interpretation irony Johannes Andersen Joyce land language letters literal London manuscript Maori chief Maori language Maori literacy Maori version maps meaning Milton’s Missionary Library Missionary Register Natives Ngapuhi non-book texts oral Orlando Furioso Pakeha Panizzi paper Pauline Kael political Press principle printer read and write readers record Roland Barthes scholarship Scriptures semiotics sense signatures significance signs social Society sociology of texts sovereignty status structure symbolic teach textual criticism tion traditional translation transmission Treaty of Waitangi typographic verbal visual Wellington William Colenso Wimsatt and Beardsley words written wrote Yate Zealand