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Literary Criticism Books & Reading

The Future of the Page

edited by Peter Stoicheff & Andrew Taylor

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Books & Reading, Semiotics & Theory, Book
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802088024
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $92.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802085849
    Publish Date
    Dec 2004
    List Price
    $53.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442659407
    Publish Date
    Dec 2004
    List Price
    $40.95

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Description

The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated, and how the audience accesses that information.

Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of essays that presents the best of recent critical theory on the history and future of the page and its enormous influence on Western thought and culture. Spanning the centuries between the earliest record of the page and current computerized conceptions of page-like entities, the essays examine the size of the page, its relative dimensions, materials, design, and display of information.

The page is broadly defined, allowing the volume to explore topics ranging from medieval manuscripts to non-European alternatives to the page, Algonquin symbolic literacy, and hypertext. This thought-provoking collection will appeal to literary scholars, book historians, graphic designers, and those interested in the impact of evolving print technologies on intellectual and cultural life.

About the authors

Peter Stoicheff is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Andrew Taylor (1907–1993) was one of Canada’s foremost polar explorers. An immigrant to Canada from Edinburgh, Taylor earned his engineering degree from the University of Manitoba in 1931. Before joining the Canadian Army, he was Town Engineer in Flin Flon.

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