{"id":9,"date":"2018-02-05T04:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2018-02-05T04:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T04:03:20","slug":"about-history-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/about-history-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About History of the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>EN248: The History of the Book<br \/>\n<\/u>Spring 2018<br \/>\nMW 1:00-2:15<br \/>\nMiller 205<\/p>\n<p>Instructor: Megan Cook<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:mlcook@colby.edu\">mlcook at colby dot edu<br \/>\n<\/a>Office: Miller Library 219<br \/>\nOffice Hours: Monday, 2:30-4:00; Wednesday, 9:00-10:30; Thursday, 10:00-12:00<\/p>\n<p>Textual scholar DF McKenzie famously asserted that \u201cforms effect meaning.\u201d What does this mean? That the physical form that a text takes\u2014 whether a manuscript, a printed book, a newspaper, an advertising flyer, a webpage, an inscription in stone\u2014contributes to and is in fact an integral part of what that text means. The discipline or subdiscipline of book history is predicated on the idea that, to understand what a text <em>means<\/em>, we also need to consider what it <em>is<\/em> at a material level.<\/p>\n<p>In this class, we\u2019ll explore what this relationship looks like in practice through an overview of book production in the European West, focusing on the medieval and hand press (early print) eras. Through a mixture of scholarly perspectives, primary sources (both those in Miller Library\u2019s Special Collections and digitally in other archives), and hands-on lab work, we\u2019ll explore the connection between the form and content of books in a variety of historical and media contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EN248: The History of the Book Spring 2018 MW 1:00-2:15 Miller 205 Instructor: Megan Cook E-mail: mlcook at colby dot edu Office: Miller Library 219 Office Hours: Monday, 2:30-4:00; Wednesday, 9:00-10:30; Thursday, 10:00-12:00 Textual scholar DF McKenzie famously asserted that \u201cforms effect meaning.\u201d What does this mean? That the physical form that a text takes\u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5428,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bookhistory2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}