The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication―perhaps as early as 60,000 BCE―to the present day. At its core, it examines the material history of communication: what constitutes a text, the purposes for which it is intended, how it functions, and the social ends that it serves. This coursebook can be used to support any pedagogical or research activities in text technologies, the history of the book, the history of information, and textually based work in the digital humanities. Through careful explanations of the field, examinations of terminology and themes, and illustrated case studies of diverse texts―from the Cyrus cylinder to the Eagles' "Hotel California"―Elaine Treharne and Claude Willan offer a clear yet nuanced overview of how humans convey meaning. Text Technologies will enable students and teachers to generate multiple lines of inquiry into how communication―its production, form and materiality, and reception―is crucial to any interpretation of culture, history, and society.
Author(s): Elaine Treharne, Claude Willan
Series: Stanford Text Technologies
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 223
Tags: Communication: History, Communication: Social Aspects, Communication: Technological innovations
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction to TEXT......Page 16
Finding and Defining TEXT......Page 17
Describing TEXT......Page 19
What Is the Study of Text Technologies?......Page 21
How to Use This Book......Page 22
Overview of This Book......Page 23
Intentionality......Page 24
Materiality......Page 25
Functionality......Page 27
Cultural Value/Aura......Page 29
Sedimentation......Page 31
Authority......Page 33
Production, Transmission, Consumption......Page 36
Censorship......Page 40
Copyright......Page 41
Consortia......Page 43
Cryptography......Page 45
PART II: HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK......Page 48
Timelines......Page 49
Chauvet Cave Paintings......Page 53
Babylonian Clay Tablets......Page 56
The Cyrus Cylinder......Page 58
The Florida Ostraka......Page 59
Behistun Monument......Page 61
The Rosetta Stone......Page 64
Roman Inscription......Page 65
Japanese Tsunami Stones......Page 68
Breamore Church......Page 70
Signs......Page 72
Graffiti......Page 73
Papyrus......Page 75
Paper......Page 78
Wax Tablets......Page 80
Seals......Page 81
Parchment and Vellum......Page 83
The Hereford Mappa Mundi......Page 86
The Scroll......Page 87
The Codex......Page 89
Tattoos......Page 91
Manuscript Culture......Page 93
A Bible......Page 96
A Book of Hours......Page 98
An Antiphonal......Page 100
Voynich Manuscript......Page 102
Jacobite Manuscript Poetry......Page 104
Bookbinding......Page 106
Woodcuts and Block Printing......Page 108
The Gutenberg Bible......Page 110
William Caxton and Early Modern Printing......Page 112
Protestant Bibles......Page 114
Shakespeare’s Works......Page 116
Minard’s Carte Figurative......Page 118
Chromolithography......Page 120
Newspapers......Page 121
Magazines......Page 123
The Spectator......Page 125
Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language......Page 127
Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie......Page 128
Charles Dickens’s Writing......Page 130
Readers and Reading......Page 131
The Marsh Library......Page 132
The British Library......Page 133
The Zoetrope......Page 135
Film......Page 138
Television......Page 139
Radio......Page 140
BBSs and the Well......Page 141
HTML, CSS, and RSS......Page 142
Web 2.0......Page 143
Touchscreen Tablets......Page 144
Proprietary Content Streams......Page 146
Writing Systems......Page 149
Substrates......Page 150
Sample Tools and Materials......Page 151
Trends, Themes, and Issues......Page 152
PART III: CASE STUDIES......Page 154
The One-Dollar Bill......Page 155
The Rosetta Disk......Page 159
The Cyrus Cylinder......Page 163
“Hotel California”......Page 167
Kelmscott Chaucer......Page 169
Manuscript to Print......Page 174
Compact Disc to MP3......Page 180
Scroll to Codex......Page 183
Notes......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 194
A......Page 212
C......Page 213
F......Page 215
I......Page 216
M......Page 217
P......Page 218
R......Page 219
T......Page 220
W......Page 221
Z......Page 222
