How the Page Matters

by Bonnie Mak

Book Overview

From handwritten texts to online books, the page has been a standard interface for transmitting knowledge for over two millennia. It is also a dynamic device, readily transformed to suit the needs of contemporary readers. In How the Page Matters, Bonnie Mak explores how changing technology has affected the reception of visual and written information.

Mak examines the fifteenth-century Latin text Controversia de nobilitate in three forms:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442615354
• ISBN13: 9781442615359
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher