
Unprinted
Publication Beyond the Press
Cambridge University Press
Published on 30. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-1-009-54531-0 (ISBN)
Description
This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity. This decentres print as the means for understanding publication; instead, publication is seen as an heuristic term which identifies activities these traditions share, but which also differ in ways not reducible to comparisons with printing. The Element engages with texts written on papyrus, chiselled in stone, and created digitally; sung, proclaimed, and put on stage; banned, hidden and rediscovered. The authors move between Greek inscriptions and Tibetan edicts, early modern manuscripts and AI-assisted composition, monasteries and courts, constantly questioning the term 'publication' and considering the agency of people publishing and the publics they address. The picture that transpires is that of a colourful variety of contexts of production and dissemination, underlining the value of studying 'unprinted' publication in its own right.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-54531-0 (9781009545310)
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Author
KU Leuven
University of Oxford
Domeisen Rare Books
University of Oxford
British School at Athens
Balliol College, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The Queen's College, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Content
Foreword; 1. What are publication and the press?; Publication in ancient Greece and Rome: no print in sight, by Daria Kohler; Manuscripts in Germany in response to print, by Natascha Domeisen; Performance as publication in the eighteenth century, by Katie Noble; 2. Personal agency and its limits; Carols, authorship and agency, by Micah Mackay; Limits of agency in Athenian inscriptions, by Edward Jones; AI and agency in journalism, by Felix M. Simon; 3. Public and private spheres; Public and private spheres at Saffron Monastery, by Rosie Maxton; Communicating in and beyond the monastery in Tibet, by Daniel Wojahn; Reading publics and the Elizabethan succession, by Daniel Haywood; Samuel Beckett and 'The Life of the Afterlife', by Brian M. Moore; 4. Conclusion.