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Figures Of Speech - Six Histories Of Language And Identity In The Age Of Revolutions

by Tim Cassedy

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 Examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identity. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time, Tim Cassedy shows how each put language at the centre of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era's linguistic ideas.
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Playful Letters - A Study In Early Modern Alphabetics

by Erika Mary Boeckeler

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 <div>Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. <i>Playful Letters</i> reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image.<br> <br> Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the "letterature" that underwrites such cultural production. <i>Playful Letters</i> begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body—an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image.<br> <br> In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic alphabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia, <i>Playful Letters</i> contributes to the continuous story of how people use new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including the alphabet itself. <br> </div>
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Portrait And The Book - Illustration And Literary Culture In Early America

by Megan Walsh

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 Argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin's and Phillis Wheatley's frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson's heroine Pamela, shaped readers' conceptions of American literature.
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Mass Authorship And The Rise Of Self-Publishing

by Timothy Laquintano

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 <div>In the last two decades, digital technologies have made it possible for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to rapidly and inexpensively self-publish a book. Once a stigmatized niche activity, self-publishing has grown explosively. Hobbyists and professionals alike have produced millions of books, circulating them through e-readers and the web. What does this new flood of books mean for publishing, authors, and readers? Some lament the rise of self-publishing because it tramples the gates and gatekeepers who once reserved publication for those who met professional standards. Others tout authors’ new freedom from the narrow-minded exclusivity of traditional publishing. Critics mourn the death of the author; fans celebrate the democratization of authorship.<br> <br> Drawing on eight years of research and interviews with more than eighty self-published writers, <i>Mass Authorship</i> avoids the polemics, instead showing how writers are actually thinking about and dealing with this brave new world. Timothy Laquintano compares the experiences of self-publishing authors in three distinct genres—poker strategy guides, memoirs, and romance novels—as well as those of writers whose self-published works hit major bestseller lists. He finds that the significance of self-publishing and the challenge it presents to traditional publishing depend on the aims of authors, the desires of their readers, the affordances of their platforms, and the business plans of the companies that provide those platforms.<br> <br> In drawing a nuanced portrait of self-publishing authors today, Laquintano answers some of the most pressing questions about what it means to publish in the twenty-first century: How do writers establish credibility in an environment with no editors to judge quality? How do authors police their copyrights online without recourse to the law? How do they experience Amazon as a publishing platform? And how do they find an audience when, it sometimes seems, there are more writers than readers? <br> </div>
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Metamedia - American Book Fictions And Literary Print Culture After Digitization

by Alexander Starre

72,88€ + 10% CARD

 Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia , American literature has rediscovered the book as an artistic medium after the first ebook hype in the late 1990s.
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Tunisie, Une Terre D'Espérance

by Pierre Angotti

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Justice : Juste Ciel !

by Françoise Angotti

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Tout Commence Par Moi ! : Le Guide Essentiel Pour Faire De Soi Un Allié, Redevenir Acteur De Sa Vie, Et Vivre Plus Libre Et Aligné.

by Laura Müller

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Energétique Physiologique De L'Acupuncture

by Maurice Mussat

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Dans La Peau De Buffet

by Eric Mercier

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The Roots Of Cane - Jean Toomer And American Magazine Modernism

by John K. Young

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 Proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomerâ€™s Cane. John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923, asking how original readers would have encountered his work.
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The Jab Anthology - Selections From The Journal Of Artists' Books, 1994-2020

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 An anthology of articles selected from The Journal of Artists' Books containing some of the best critical writing on artists' books produced in the last quarter of a century.
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Figures Of Speech - Six Histories Of Language And Identity In The Age Of Revolutions

by Cassedy Tim

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 Examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identity. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time, Tim Cassedy shows how each put language at the centre of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era's linguistic ideas.
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Reading As Collective Action - Text As Tactics

by Nicholas Hengen Fox

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Playful Letters - A Study In Early Modern Alphabetics

by Erika Mary Boeckeler

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Impressions 1 - America Through Academic Readings

by Cheryl (Miami-Dade Community College) Benz e Steven Benz

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 Through academic readings, Impressions helps students explore American culture and develop the reading, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills necessary to be successful learners.
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth

by H P Lovecraft

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The Portrait And The Book - The Invention Of The Illustrated Book In Early America

by Megan Walsh

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 Argues that colonial-era author portraits, such as Benjamin Franklin's and Phillis Wheatley's frontispieces; political portraits that circulated during the debates over the Constitution; and portraits of beloved fictional characters in the 1790s, such as those of Samuel Richardson's heroine Pamela, shaped readers' conceptions of American literature.

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