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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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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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