Dirt - Those Paper Boats

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Paper Rose - Araz Eleyasian

tutoring the teacherby Douglas MesserliTalin Agon and Araz Eleyasian (screenplay), Araz Eleyasian (director) The Paper Rose / 2018 [9 minutes]A very frustrated English teacher, Toni (Bronte Pearce) is nervous about her day in school. She’s teaching Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a book she clearly loves. But when we see the antics of her students, each spending the classroom time sending text messages to the others when they’re not taunting the quiet Johnny (Damian Hempstead), we compre...

Interacting with Print

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing, a new book from John Boardley

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing ( attr(href) ) How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in color? John Boardley’s ( attr(href) ) award-winning book, Typographic Firsts, charts the formative early history of the printed or typographic book. Many of the standard features of the printed book were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Although Johannes Gutenberg is credited wi...

The Charters in the Margin of Matthew Paris’s Chronica Maiora - Medievalists.net

The Charters in the Margin of Matthew Paris’s Chronica Maiora By Meghan WoolleyMatthew Paris’s Chronica maiora is famous for its illustrations: maps of Great Britain, the murder of an archbishop, and an elephant gifted to England’s King Henry III. But as I sat in the archive, reading Matthew’s own copy of the Chronica, something else caught my eye: small charters drawn in the margins, reproduced in meticulous detail down to their colorful seals.It’s common for English chronicles to include ma...

Gutenberg and Goldsmithing

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Homer and the Arts of the Book - Homer in Print - The University of Chicago Library

Homer and the Arts of the Book The Iliad and the Odyssey have inspired artists in all periods and mediums. The dramatic scenes and detailed descriptions invite visual representation and stimulate creative interpretation. Ancient artists depicted scenes from the Homeric epics on vases, wall paintings at Pompeii, and miniature ...

Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

Island of the Missing Trees - TLS review - and more clips from TLS 3 Sep 2021 print edition

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A Bibliographical Alphabet | Tales of Mystery and Pagination

A Bibliographical Alphabet Due to the current situation, we are all working from home, so we are unable to show you new images from our collections. However, we are keen to maintain our online presence, so do follow us on Twitter and enjoy looking back at previous blog posts. We are also available by email – epbooks@tcd.ie – but obviously there is a limit as to what research we can do to answer your enquiries. We will do our best, of course! Bibliography, in the sense of the history and ...

And when I looked … a book was therein

And when I looked … a book was thereinSourceURL: https://www.tcd.ie/library/epb/blog/and-when-i-looked-a-book-was-therein/ Sometimes it’s obvious that a book has a story to tell before you even look at the text. The volume at OLS X-1-60 is a good example. As soon as it is lifted from its protective storage box, the hand-made brown velvet case begs to be stroked. The initials TW are embroidered on the top; the pink felt lining protrudes; and the cardboard backing s...

The essential colporteur - a pioneering unheroic history of the printed book

A Bibliographical Alphabet | Tales of Mystery and Pagination

A Bibliographical Alphabet Due to the current situation, we are all working from home, so we are unable to show you new images from our collections. However, we are keen to maintain our online presence, so do follow us on Twitter and enjoy looking back at previous blog posts. We are also available by email – epbooks@tcd.ie – but obviously there is a limit as to what research we can do to answer your enquiries. We will do our best, of course! Bibliography, in the sense of the history and ...

Reckless Paper Birds

Rock Paper Scissors - Soil Mechanics

From the book Remaking the World:

Bird as bard

Could birds in English literature be a reference to poets and playwrights? More ancient languages would suggest a different but not opposite meaning. Birds are often symbolic of the female psyche, and the virtual function of females in the storyworld as potential powerful diplomats. Birds can carry and deliver informed messages (sometimes literally on paper) without causing a direct threat. (Hitchcock's The Birds being one exception) or angelic spy -- a neither necessarily friendly nor nece...

Posthumanism and Animality in Harry Potter

ABSTRACT The analysis undertaken here was carried out with the intent of identifying how non-human animals are represented in the Harry Potter series of seven novels by author J. K. Rowling in order to try to prove that such representations outline posthumanist conceptions of animality and, consequently, of humanity. As theoretical ground for this reading, writings from thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Michel Foucault and J. M. Coetzee were selected in ord...