Digital Resources: Gutenberg Jahrbuch

Gutenberg Jahrbuch is available from 1929-2000 in pdf format through DigiZeitschriften. Lotte Hellinga's "Printing History as Cultural History" 76 (2001): pp. 20-26 may bring some nostalgic sighs for the NEH group's day at the Senate House Library. For those interested in early modern era printing manuals beyond Moxon, check out G.A. Crüwell’s "Ein österreichisches Formatbuch" (1931): pp. 252-256.

Scripts: Cuneiform

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's recent When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007) addresses the reciprocal relationship between writing and art in the ancient Mesopotamian world. In examining pottery and wall paintings, stone reliefs and seals, Schmandt-Besserat claims that circa 3500 b.c.e., writing impacted art, which became more linear and capable of suggesting narrative. As writing became more phonetic and syntactical, and Mesopotamian rulers became more focused on eternal life, inscription and representation were more effectively wrought together. This artifactual-textual interface reached its peak, according to Schmandt-Besserat, with the circa 1750 b.c.e. Stele of Hammurabi, now in the Louvre Museum.

She presented a portion of her research at the June 2004 Annual Meeting of the Media Ecology Association, held in Rochester, New York.

[Pictured above: Babylonian cuneiform tablet: Instructions to workmen on the threshing floor, c. 2038-2030 b.c.e. Special Collections Department, University of South Florida Tampa Library]

Book Use & Fair Use

INTRODUCING THE BOOK

A snippet from a television show called Øystein & Meg (Øystein & I), produced by the Norwegian broadcasting channel (NRK) in 2001. It’s written by Knut Nærum and performed by Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad.



A FAIR(Y) USE TALE

Created by Bucknell Professor Eric Faden, whose crew cut together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, to explain copyright and fair use.

Voice of the Shuttle: resources in book history

Some of these resources we've already mentioned, but many not, and the link connects to the rest of the site, too.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3785