TXTDS 224 AD: Histories and Futures of the Book, Texts and Reading

Spring 2022
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Meeting:
F 2:30pm - 3:20pm / BLD 286
SLN:
21140
Section Type:
Quiz
Joint Sections:
HSTEU 290 BD , FRENCH 224 AD , JSIS A 224 AD
SECTION CLOSED FOR NOW, WILL BE OPENED IF ENROLLMENT IN THE MAIN SECTION IS HIGH ENOUGH. DISCUSSION SECTION FOR TXTDS 224 A
Catalog Description:
From medieval manuscripts to commercially printed books to today's rapidly recycled digital content, explores how changing forms have shaped the ways texts have been read and understood, how the spread of printing technology impacted the modern world, how the book-form became dominant, and how a new media revolution (the mass digitization of texts) is again reshaping access to and understanding of the past. Offered: jointly with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224.
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Status:
Active
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May 3, 2024 - 4:40 pm