Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication : : Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West /

Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication : : Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West / / ed. by Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Glenn W. Most, Anthony Grafton.

This volume is a comparative study of the practice of impagination across different ages and civilizations. By impagination we mean the act of placing and arranging spatially textual and other information onto a material bearer that could be made of a variety of materials (papyrus, bamboo slips, pal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
HerausgeberIn:
Chang, Ku-ming (Kevin),
Grafton, Anthony ,
Most, Glenn W.,
MitwirkendeR:
Chang, Ku-ming Kevin,
Choe, Keysook,
Dunkelgrün, Theodor,
Grafton, Anthony,
Kim, Loretta E.,
Kono, Kimiko,
Li, Ren-Yuan,
Lin, Shenyu,
Most, Glenn W.,
Proot, Goran,
Puett, Michael,
Rusk, Bruce,
Williams, Tyler,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 417 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I Slips, Scrolls, and Leaves: Before the Codex
  • Chapter 1. Text and Paratext in the Greek Classical Tradition
  • Chapter 2. Tabernacles of Text: A Brief Visual History of the Hebrew Bible
  • Chapter 3. Impagination, Reading, and Interpretation in Early Chinese Texts
  • Chapter 4. Sūtra Text in Pecha Format: Page Layout of the Tibetan Vimalakīrtinirdeśa
  • Chapter 5. Between the Lines and in the Margins: Linguistic Change and Impagination Practices in South Asia
  • II The Printed World
  • Chapter 6. The Margin as Canvas: A Forgotten Function of the Early Printed Page
  • Chapter 7. Page Layout and the Complex Semiotic System of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Chosŏn’s Samganghaengsildo
  • Chapter 8. The Transformation of the Typical Page in the Handpress Era in the Southern Netherlands, 1473–c. 1800
  • Chapter 9. Writer’s Block or Printer’s Block: The Book and Its Openings in Early Modern China
  • Chapter 10. Placing Texts on Chinese Pages: From Bamboo Slips to Printed Paper
  • Chapter 11. Recovering Translation Lost: Symbiosis and Ambilingual Design in Chinese/Manchu Language Reference Manuals of the Qing Dynasty
  • Chapter 12. Japanophone Glosses (kunten) in Printed and Digitized Manuscripts
  • III Beyond the Book
  • Chapter 13. Beyond the Physical Page: Latest Practice of Scientific Publication
  • Index

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