Seminars
History of the Book
This seminar is a bi-weekly, interdisciplinary faculty
and advanced graduate student colloquium on the History of
the Book, with the definition of "book" taken very loosely
to mean any kind of text, be it a codex or something else. There
is a pronounced emphasis on the physical production of the
texts of any sort and how they are received or perceived
by their original (and subsequent) audience(s).
This
focus is intended to involve participants in discussion
of a wide-ranging group of related issues: how material forms
affect the meaning (or at least the understanding) of given
works, how canons are formed, patronage and its effect
on works of art, literacy and how one determines what constitutes
it, the history of reading, changes in the dominant media
in a given culture.
The Seminar is sponsored in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Information on the Fall 2007 schedule will be announced.
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