History of Reading and Writing

Literacy, culture and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal

by Andras Kisery

in: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, pp. 34-46.

Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics

by Carol Tilley

Forthcoming in Information & Culture: A Journal of History.

Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones... more Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent serve as historical and cultural touchstones of the anti-comics movement in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. Although there have been persistent concerns about the clinical evidence Wertham used as the basis for Seduction, his sources were made widely available only in 2010. This paper documents specific examples of how Wertham manipulated, overstated, compromised, and fabricated evidence—especially that evidence he attributed to personal clinical research with young people—for rhetorical gain.

Las revoluciones del libro y la lectura: del códice al hipertexto. Entrevista con Roger Chartier

by Manuel Peña Díaz

Álabe, 1 (junio 2010=

Ciencia, historia y escritura

by Jose Pardo-Tomas

Escrito en la rebotica. Coleccionismo naturalista y prácticas de escritura en el gabinete de curiosidades de la familia Salvador. Barcelona, 1626-1857

by Jose Pardo-Tomas

Writing in Tongues: Mixed Scripts and Style in Insular Art

by Ben Tilghman

from Insular and Anglo-Saxon: Art and Thought in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Column Hourihane (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011), 92-108.

Le libraire de Cogels. Leescultuur en levenscyclus van een Antwerpse elitefamilie (1815-1846)

by Gerrit Verhoeven

Matthew J. Sigal & Michael Pettit, "Information Overload, Professionalization, and the Origins of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association"

by Michael Pettit

This paper examines the origins of psychology’s adoption of a standardized style and format for its publications and... more This paper examines the origins of psychology’s adoption of a standardized style and format for its publications and the controversies that this decision engendered. The present account draws on perspectives derived from the history of reading and the sociology of professions to explain the historical appeal of such standards. Archival documents are used to trace the events that led to the drafting of the first set of publication standards in 1929. Where previous historical account of the publication manual have stressed the influence of behaviorism, the discipline’s leaders embraced these instructions due to the perception of information overload resulting from the rapid expansion and professionalization of psychology following World War I. Under the auspices of the National Research Council, a committee on publication practices surveyed scientists, editors, and publishers in the hopes of making more efficient the communication of psychological knowledge within an increasingly large and anonymous discipline. Archival documents also reveal an animated debate over whether the progress of psychology as a science required the adoption of universally followed rules trusted by all or the cultivation of the scientist’s creativity and individuality of expression.

A Mirror for Princes, A Fiction for Readers: The Habname of Veysi and Dream Narratives in Ottoman Turkish Literature

by Ahmet Tunç Şen

published in "Journal of Turkish Literature" 8 (2011) : 41-65

Moving Beyond Decipherment: A Holistic Approach to an Unreadable Script (Review)

by Jeff Emanuel

Review of Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume I: Analysis, by Silvia Ferrara (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Ecritures ordinaires en pays touareg

by Dominique Casajus

published in L'Homme, 201, 2012, p. 31-54

The Tuareg have an old alphabet with characters called tafineq, a word that might refer back to the term used by the... more The Tuareg have an old alphabet with characters called tafineq, a word that might refer back to the term used by the Greeks to refer to Phoenicians. This autochtonous alphabet derived from older « Libyco-Berber » scripts, which are attested as far back as the middle of the second century BCE. It coexists with two alphabets of foreign origin : Arabic and Latin. It is only used to write short texts : letters to people who are close, graffiti on trees or rocks, or inscriptions on utensils. This article focuses on how this alphabet is used for letterwriting even though this activity allows for using the Latin alphabet too. Recent attempts to reform the Tuareg’s alphabet are discussed.

The ambiguities of censorship

by Simone Testa

The ambiguities of censorship: Tesori politici (1589-1605) and the Index
of Forbidden books, in Bruniana e Campanelliana, 13 (2007), pp. 559-572

This article provides a case study in the history of early-seventeenth century censorship in Italy. This was made... more This article provides a case study in the history of early-seventeenth century censorship in Italy. This was made possible by consultation of files from the Congregation for the Index of Forbidden Books now kept in the Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (acdf). The recent
opening of this important Archive has permitted new research on the history of censorship. Scholars can now follow the debate on the censorship of specific books.

School Exercise Books: A Complex Source for a History of the Approach to Schooling and Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Juri Meda

'Placing Literary Culture: Books and Civic Culture in Milton', Journal of New Zealand Literature, 28:2 (2010).

by Tony Ballantyne

Reading the Newspaper in Colonial Otago

by Tony Ballantyne

Journal of New Zealand Studies- special issue, "Communicating Culture in Colonial New Zealand', 12 n.s. 2011.

Iowa’s “Pink Book:” A Primary Source Analysis Essay of The Book of Hours

by Mara Egherman

Short essay assignment as part of course requirements for SLIS Research Methods.

TECHNIQUES OF READING AND TEXTUAL LAYOUT IN ANCIENT GREEK TEXTS

by Luigi Battezzato

«Cambridge Classical Journal» («Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society») 55 (2009) 1-23

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From the Library to the Printimg Press: Luigi Vanvitelli's Life with Books

by Robin Thomas

Représentations et pratiques de l’écrit dans l’ancien village roumain

by Alexandru Ofrim

APERTIO LIBRORUM. BOOKS AND MAGIC IN A ROMANIAN VILLAGE

by Alexandru Ofrim