Laura Mandell
Genre:criticism
Language:English
Type:PDF book
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Limited
Publication date:08.12.2022
Price:$103.05
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Breaking the Book is a manifesto on the cognitive consequences and emotional effects of human interactions with physical books that reveals why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to digital humanities. Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to digital humanities Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities