History of the Book

Objectives

a) To get an autonomous work capacity on book and publishing materials;
b) To use critically methodologies and concepts;
c) To locate forms, uses and concepts of the History of the Book, having in mind current debates on how new means of communication do revolution the record and the transmission of texts.
d) To identify and to know the main agents of publishing history in Portugal.

General characterization

Code

722091130

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

João Luís da Costa Campos Vieira Lisboa

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

Chartier, Roger, A mão do autor e a mente do editor, São Paulo, Editora UNESP, 2014.

Curto, Diogo Ramada (coord.), Bibliografia da História do livro em Portugal, séculos XV a XIX, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, 2003.

Darnton, Robert, The case for books. Past, present, and future, New York, Public Affairs, 2009.

Faria, Maria Isabel Faria e Maria da Graça Pericão, Dicionário do livro. Da escrita ao livro electrónico, Coimbra, Almedina, 2008.

McKenzie, D. F., Bibliography and the sociology of texts, London, The British Library, 1986.

Schiffrin, André, O Negócio dos Livros - como grandes grupos económicos decidem o que lemos, Lisboa, Letra livre, 2013.

Suarez, M. e Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the book, 2 vols., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Teaching method

Dialogued lecture. Analysis of documents.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1. The book as an object: conception, formats, materials, vocabulary, uses.
2. Major transformations.
3. Uses: spaces, professions, forms and conflicts.
4. Reading in contemporary world.

Programs

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