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Article: Captured voices: five centuries of interplay between folk literature and print. An exhibition.
- Article from:
- Ethnologies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Curated by Michael Taft. (Edmonton: University of Alberta. Pp. vi + 32, illustrations.)
The scholarly field known as history of the book (histoire du livre) generally focuses on the transmission of written text from author to reader, whether in manuscript or print form. Essentially interdisciplinary, the field embraces the approaches of both literary scholarship and cultural history. Where one considers creative and reception processes, including the influence of publishers and readers on a given text, the other examines the context for publication and dissemination -- that is, prevailing political, religious, legal, economic, or societal conditions. Scrutiny of ...