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How the page matters / Bonnie Mak.

Title: How the page matters / Bonnie Mak.
Author: Mak, Bonnie.
Publication: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.

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Description

xii, 129 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information. Mak examines the fifteenth-century Latin text Controversia de nobilitate in three forms: as a manuscript, a printed work, and a digital edition. Transcending boundaries of time and language, How the Page Matters connects technology with tradition using innovative new media theories. While historicizing contemporary digital culture and asking how on-screen combinations of image and text affect the way conveyed information is understood, Mak's elegant analysis proves both the timeliness of studying interface design and the persistence of the page as a communication mechanism."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Studies in book and print culture series

Uniform Title

Studies in book and print culture

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-122) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Architectures of the page -- Reading the page -- The paratext and the page -- Reading the library -- The digital page -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9780802097606 (bound)
080209760X (bound)
9781442615359 (pbk.)
1442615354 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011902771

OCLC

693814340
SCSB-10606037

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Harvard Library