Penn press book series university of pennsylvania press. Peter stallybrass, marxs coat university of brighton. Grose, ann hughes, david scott kastan, kathleen lynch, william sherman, and peter stallybrass. The part of the article i want to analyze is about the scrolls and books, how does the bookmarking system applies in a physical book, and whether we should read a text continuously or discontinuously. Jennifer andersen and elizabeth sauer university of pennsylvania press, 2002 pp. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidencefrom library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindingsto explore individual. The materiality of reading a lecture by peter stallybrass university of pennsylvania wednesday, june 8, 2016 5. For peter stallybrass 2002, the art of printing was primarily a culmination of this development of the navigable book. Peter stallybrass author of the politics and poetics of. The proposition is that the vast majority of letters written between the 1530s and the 1920s consist mainly of blank paperand that they are designed to do so.
Navigating the bible, where he writes, the navigation of computers is still imagined in the visual language that was elaborated in the fifteenth century for the navigation of books. Peter stallybrass, books and scrolls, 2002 technological triumph. The part of the article i want to analyze is about the scrolls and books, how does the book marking system applies in a physical book, and whether we should read a text continuously or discontinuously. Annenberg professor in the humanities and professor of english and of comparative literature and literary theory. The materiality of reading center for religious studies. Oliver stallybrass has 16 books on goodreads with 2490 ratings. When we talk about reading a sacred text, like the hebrew bible, i read it as my professor assigned from genesis 1125 continuously. Peter stallybrass, for instance, demonstrates that bookmaking was central to catholic worship during the sixteenth century. How did christians read the bible in medieval and early modern. Reading discontinuouslypeter stallybrass, university of pennsylvania learn more about the center for renaissance.
Many thanks to ryan cordell, lisa gitelman, kari kraus, jessica pressman, peter stallybrass, and many others, whose research and classes inspired this one dig 350. See all books authored by pete brassett, including talion. My main takeaway from this course is that if there is a rare book collection in your school or near you, you should definitely take the time to check it out. Oliver stallybrasss most popular book is a room with a view. Navigating the bible, books and readers in early modern england, edited by j. Navigating the bible, enabled the capacity for random access 42, allowing a reader to turn immediately to any particular point in a text, thus facilitating the reader. Scrolls, whether film reels, video cassettes, audio tapes, classical rolls, or the torah make it hard or impossible to jump rapidly from place to place. Peter stallybrass, books and scrolls, 2002 the ordinary believer could easily stumble in this thicket of discordant editions resnick,codex in early jewish and christian communities, 1992 caveat lector 38 wednesday, february 1, 2012. Peter stallybrass is annenberg professor in the humanities emeritus at the university of pennsylvania, where he founded and directed the history of material texts seminar from 1993 until 2018. Books define the life of peter stallybrass, an english professor at penn for the past 30 years. Books and readers in early modern england examines readers, reading, and publication. Navigating the bible, in jennifer anderson and elizabeth sauer, eds. Navigating the bible, in books and readers in early modern england. Books and readers in early modern england examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the renaissance to the restoration.
The essays draw on an array of documentary evidencefrom library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindingsto explore individual reading habits and experiences in a. Roger chartier and peter stallybrass topics in the history of the book. Navigating the bible in a volume called books and readers in early modern england edited by jennifer andersen and elizabeth sauer upenn press, 2002where he opens by looking at the hybridity of books as. Kathleen lynch, william sherman, and peter stallybrass, investigate interactions. Readings marked on the syllabus with a diamond are the primary readings for that day.
This course is no longer taught at the um school of information. Printing, preaching, and reading in eighteenthcentury america. Books, and bookishness, can be new media to the extent that they are what they have always been. Peter has been awarded the andrew lang gold medal from the university of st.
Peter stallybrass begins with a very simple proposition, although he hopes that it will have some surprising implications. Peter stallybrass is the author of the politics and poetics of transgression 4. You can download the paper by clicking the button above. The dependency upon the hand of another that we take for granted in children is reenacted by oedipus. Jennifer anderson and elizabeth sauer philadelphia.
In renaissance clothing and the materials of memory jones and stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics. Pete brassett books list of books by author pete brassett. Modes of bible reading in early modern england springerlink. These materials are from an older iteration of the course. Old books but not necessarily just books that are old. The politics and poetics of transgression stallybrass, peter on. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or woman. Starting as a child reading favorites with his family, and throughout his storied career, it is the book that has fascinated him more than anything else. The mystery of walking is the mystery of a forked animall tragedie f1, 3. A pencil note on the flyleaf of this book suggests it may have belonged to princess elizabeth, daughter of king george iii. Reading, writing, and printing in early modern europe and america coml 411. I thought you might also like to know about an interesting essay on this theme by peter stallybrass called books and scrolls. Exhibition of books and dissertations in american book history researched at aas, joanne chaison, aas research librarian.
Reading discontinuouslypeter stallybrass, university of pennsylvania learn more about the center for renaissance studies history of the book lectures. Peter stallybrass is eloquent about this in his books and scrolls. The history of the book andas discontinuous reading. The bible and histories of reading rare book school. Navigating the bible our class culminated in our own wiki of book history you can read my final essay about the history of page numbers here.
Type chapter is part of book title border fetishisms. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidencefrom library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindingsto explore individual reading habits and. Material texts explores cultural technologies of communicationbooks, manuscripts, scrolls, films, graffiti, the actors voicewith particular attention to the ways specific material forms affect meaning. Navigating the bible, in jennifer andersen and elizabeth sauer eds. Martine meuwese, the animation of marginal decorations in monty python get on uf library course reserve. Navigating the bible, in books and readers in early modern england, ed. Links to all the readings on this syllabus may be found here note. Project muse books and readers in early modern england. The prehistory of the book p m l a t h e o r ie s an d m e t h o d o log ie s. Books define the life of peter stallybrass, an english professor at penn for the past 30 years starting as a child reading favorites with his family, and throughout his storied career, it is the book that has fascinated him more than anything else. As james green and peter stallybrass have shown, franklins wooden press cranked out auction announcements, lottery tickets, handbills advertising runaway slaves and newspapers crammed with.
George henderson, bible illustration in the age of laud, the library 8. History and future of the book fall 2014 digital studies. Peter stallybrass considers the evolution of reading practices and textual navigation in a book chapter titled books and scrolls. Books by oliver stallybrass author of a room with a view.
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