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ENGL 336 - History of the Printed Book in the West


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
The medium is the message. This course will consider the printed text as an aesthetic object, a technology, a shaper of literary discourse, an agent of intellectual and social change. Topics will include the influence of printing on the democratization of literacy, the scientific revolution, humanism, the Reformation, the rise of the novel, modern authorship, silent reading (literacy), and more. We will make extensive use of Oberlin’s special collections. British, Pre-1700.

 
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: W. Hyman
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.


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