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

N/A

Bibliography

Chartier, R., A mão do autor e a mente do editor, São Paulo, Editora UNESP, 2014.
Curto, D. R. (coord.), Bibliografia da História do livro em Portugal, séculos XV a XIX, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, 2003.
Darnton, R., The case for books. Past, present, and future, New York, Public Affairs, 2009.
Faria, M.I. e M.G. Pericão, Dicionário do livro. Da escrita ao livro electrónico, Coimbra, Almedina, 2008.
Lisboa, J.L, "Edições num mundo sem editores" in Escrita e Cultura na Europa e no Atlântico Moderno, Lisboa, Universidade de Lisboa / Centro de História, Atlântica - Lisbon Historical Studies, 2020, pp.33-55.
McKenzie, D. F., Bibliography and the sociology of texts, London, The British Library, 1986.
Medeiros, N., O livro no Portugal contemporâneo, Lisboa, Outro Modo, 2018.
Noorda, R. e Marsden, S., "Twenty-First Century Book Studies: The State of the Discipline", Book History, Vol. 22, 2019, pp. 370-397.

Teaching method

Dialogued lecture.
Analysis of documents. Analysis and presentation (oral and written) of an ancient book by the students, from a list of proposals made by the teacher. Oral interventions during the seminar sessions.

Evaluation method

Continuous Evaluation - Analysis of documents. Analysis and presentation (oral and written) of an ancient book by the students, from a list of proposals made by the teacher. Oral interventions during the seminar sessions(100%)

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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