PORTABLE HOMELANDS AND CIRCUMAMBULATORY READING: HEBREW PRINTING AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRANSLOCAL PUBLISHING NETWORKS 1

[...]like other non-European languages, music, and mathematics, setting in metal is not necessarily the most technologically efficient method. [...]the reading experience becomes multi-directional as the eye, hand, and mind travel in complex non-linear pathways, at once traditional and unfamiliar. I...

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Published in:Publishing history 2012-01, Vol.72, p.97-5
Main Author: Shep, Sydney J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Bilingualism
Biographies
Book binding
Colonies & territories
Dictionaries
European languages
Hebrew language
Interlibrary loans
Library collections
Mathematics
National libraries
Publishing
Rare books
Society
Typography
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Summary:[...]like other non-European languages, music, and mathematics, setting in metal is not necessarily the most technologically efficient method. [...]the reading experience becomes multi-directional as the eye, hand, and mind travel in complex non-linear pathways, at once traditional and unfamiliar. In effect, the typography of the Calendar produces a topography of travel and Charlotte Eubanks' concept of 'circumambulatory reading'33 in relation to haptic interactions with Buddhist scrolls and stupas is apposite. [...]the bilingual construction of the Calendar reflects a fascinating blend of crosscultural imperatives particularly in relation to the temporal paradoxes of Moss's Calendar. In effect, they are translocal. [...]the circumambulatory experience of the Calendar's typographic bilingualism as well as the dissemination of the artefact create a topography of reading that is at once challengingly multifaceted and richly evocative.
ISSN:0309-2445