Artefacts of Writing

Artefacts of Writing
Title Artefacts of Writing PDF eBook
Author Peter D. McDonald
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 339
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198725159

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Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms and puts any fixed or final idea of community in question. Part I examines the European context (1860 to 1945) and Part II analyses the traditions of disruptive writing that emerged out of sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia after 1945.

(Re)writing and Remembering

(Re)writing and Remembering
Title (Re)writing and Remembering PDF eBook
Author James Dalrymple
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 175
Release 2016-02-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1443888702

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Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. Few narratives draw attention to this process, yet others make the act of remembering a primary part of the narrative situation. Ranging in its focus from poetry to novels, autobiographical memoirs and biopics – from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real – this volume discusses the extent to which such fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. How seamlessly does experience yield to the ordering strictures of narrative and what is at stake in the process? What must be omitted or stylised, and to what (ideological) end? In making an artefact of the past, what role does artifice play, and what does this process also tell us about history-making?

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History
Title Writing Material Culture History PDF eBook
Author Anne Gerritsen
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 353
Release 2014-12-18
Genre History
ISBN 1472518594

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Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history are just some of the issues addressed in a book that brings together key scholars from around the world. A range of artefacts, including a 16th-century Peruvian crown and a 19th-century Alaskan Sea Lion overcoat, are considered, illustrating the myriad ways in which objects and history relate to one another. Bringing together scholars working in a variety of disciplines, this book provides a critical introduction for students interested in material culture, history and historical methodologies.

Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment

Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment
Title Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment PDF eBook
Author Ricarda Wagner
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 431
Release 2019-10-21
Genre History
ISBN 3110645718

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What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.

The Book as Artefact, Text and Border

The Book as Artefact, Text and Border
Title The Book as Artefact, Text and Border PDF eBook
Author Anne Mette Hansen
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 391
Release 2005
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9042018887

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Books do not just contain texts: books themselves are cultural artefacts, which convey many meanings in their own right, meanings which interact with the texts they contain. Awareness of the many significances of books as cultural and textual objects reshapes the traditional disciplines of textual theory, analytic bibliography, codicology and palaeography, while the advent of electronic books, and digital methods for representing print books, is introducing a new dimension to our understanding. Seven essays in this volume, ranging over medieval Portuguese and Swedish manuscripts, eighteenth-century Icelandic editions, Australian playtexts, Thackeray and Anita Brookner, and Stefan George, consider these questions from the broad perspective of textual scholarship. Texts may exist on the borderland of word and not-word; or they may spring from borderlands of nation or culture; or they may be considered from the margins of neighbouring disciplines. So readers must set the texts within contexts, to see the play of text against border. Essays in this volume explore different texts against varying backgrounds -- Pound's Cantos, Joyce's Ulysses, Trollope's An Eye for an Eye, Woolf's The Waves -- while essays by McGann and Lernout argue the dimensionality of text on the intersection of print and digital media. Implicit in all these essays is the contention, that textual scholarship must influence literary interpretation. Two final essays focus directly on this, in the cases of Melville's Moby-Dick and Emily Dickinson's late fragments. An extensive reviews section completes this volume.

Loop of Jade

Loop of Jade
Title Loop of Jade PDF eBook
Author Sarah Howe
Publisher Random House
Pages 71
Release 2015-05-07
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1448190681

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*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015* *WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015* There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love – what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other. Crossing the bounds of time, race and language, this is an enthralling exploration of self and place, of migration and inheritance, and introduces an unmistakable new voice in British poetry.

Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China

Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China
Title Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China PDF eBook
Author Cécile Michel
Publisher de Gruyter
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9783110714227

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Fake artefacts are objects of fascination. This volume is devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Mesopotamia to modern China. Produced for economic, political, religious or more personal reasons, fake artefacts can be identified by