Introduction to AJS review symposium: the jewish book : Views and questions

In the last several decades, the study of reading, writing, and publishing has emerged as a lively field of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Historians and literary scholars have engaged with a number of questions about the impact of changes in technology on reading practices and parti...

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Autres titres:Symposium: The Jewish Book
Auteur principal: Shear, Adam 1971- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: University of Pennsylvania Press [2010]
Dans: AJS review
Année: 2010, Volume: 34, Numéro: 2, Pages: 353-357
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Association for Jewish Studies / Judaïstique / Livre
RelBib Classification:BH Judaïsme
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Résumé:In the last several decades, the study of reading, writing, and publishing has emerged as a lively field of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Historians and literary scholars have engaged with a number of questions about the impact of changes in technology on reading practices and particularly on the relationship between new technologies of reading and writing and social, religious, and political change. The new field of the “history of the book,” merging aspects of social and intellectual history with the tools of analytical and descriptive bibliography, came to the fore in the second half of the twentieth century at the same time that the emergence of new forms of electronic media raised many questions for social scientists about the ways that technological change have affected aspects of human communication in our time. Meanwhile, while the field of book history emerged initially among early modernists interested in the impact of printing technology, the issues raised regarding authorship, publication, relations between orality and the written word, dissemination, and reception have enriched the study of earlier periods.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contient:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009410000371