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Printer's error : irreverent stories from book history
\"Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth--downright bizarre is more like it. [This book] chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing, and makes clear that we've succeeded despite ourselves\"--Amazon.com.
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Queer Failure and Early Modern Books
This article brings together bibliography and queer theory to consider the significance of errors in early modern printed books. Particular attention is paid to the errata narratives that appear in many early modern books, explaining the presence of mistakes and often requesting that the reader correct the errors before proceeding. If bibliography has tended to be norm- setting, queer theory provides a corrective, and a more patient critical mode for considering how historians of the book and literary critics might respond to the various kinds of mistakes that were central to early print. The article builds, in particular, from recent critical work on queer bibliography by Malcolm Noble and Sarah Pyke.
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Introduction: Reading through Error
This special issue reimagines textual error not as failure but as a generative force in literary history, textual transmission, and reading practice. Focusing on the period 1500 to 1800, the contributions investigate how mistakes—typographic, interpretive, or conceptual—shaped writing, printing, and reception. Rather than policing the boundaries of \"good\" reading, these essays embrace errant interpretation, tracing how authors anticipated, exploited, or resisted misreading, and how readers responded. The collection surveys primary manuscript and early printed materials, including errata sheets and personal library collections, sermons, satire, poetry, and marginalia. \"Imperfect reading\" focuses on two areas: an early modern reader's encounter with textual error, and what a flawed or faulty reader of a text might look like. The collection argues for a more capacious understanding of \"imperfect reading,\" demonstrating that error served as a tool of wit, social commentary, and epistemological inquiry. In an era that prized accuracy yet teemed with textual instability, error emerges not only as evidence of disruption but as a strategy of meaning-making. This issue encourages a new vocabulary for understanding error, reframing it as a rich area for scholarly inquiry rather than a deficiency.
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Ancient Literacies
This timely volume attempts to formulate interesting new ways of talking about the entire concept of literacy in the ancient world--literacy not in the sense of whether 10% or 30% of people in the ancient world could read or write, but in the sense of text-oriented events embedded in a particular socio-cultural context. The volume is intended as a forum in which selected leading scholars rethink from the ground up how students of classical antiquity might best approach the question of literacy in the past, and how that investigation might materially intersect with changes in the way that literacy is now viewed in other disciplines.
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Itinéraire erratique et mutation identitaire dans Desirada de M. Condé
How does the phenomenon of immigration cause migrants to change their psychological, socio-professional and cultural identities to such an extent that they become hybrids? Based on Henri Mitterand's sociocriticism, this study is organized in three parts. First, we show how immigration proves to be a stumbling block in the migrant's identity-building process, as well as a springboard for reinventing oneself in the foreign space. Then we look at the aesthetic dimension that allows us to grasp the novel above all as a work of art and not a history textbook. Finally, we illustrate that identity, in Condé's case, results from the sum of the cultures that the migrant encounters throughout his or her erratic itinerary.
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