D. F. McKenzie: Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (1999)
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“D.F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determine their meanings. He demonstrates that as works are reproduced and reread, they take on different forms and meanings. This is true of all forms of recorded information, McKenzie claims, including sound, graphics, films, landscape and new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.”
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1999
ISBN 052164495X, 9780521644952
130 pages
Review (Jerome McGann, London Review of Books)
Review (William Warner)
Commentary (Peter Shillingsburg)
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