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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.
Product details
- Published: January 2025
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781009545303
- Length: 0 pages
- Availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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