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    Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts by McKenzie, D. F.;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 16 September 1999

    • ISBN 9780521644952
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages140 pages
    • Size 216x139x12 mm
    • Weight 191 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 5 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    A major study of the principles of bibliography by one of the world's foremost scholars of the discipline.

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    Long description:

    In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of their new readers these new forms constitute vital evidence for any history of reading. McKenzie shows this is true of all forms of recorded information, including sound, graphics, films, representations of landscape and the 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, which incorporates McKenzie's classic work on orality and literacy in early New Zealand, offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of illustrations; Foreword; Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts; The Sociology of a text: oral culture, literacy, and print in early New Zealand.

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