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The scholar Jerome McGann distinguishes between the linguistic and bibliographic codes of textual objects. The linguistic code refers to the textual content, such as the words that comprise The Catcher in the Rye. In contrast, the bibliographic code is the …
Using quill pens on different writing surfaces highlighted for me the affordances of various materials, the practicality of certain handwriting scripts, and the difficulties of the scribal profession. While it was relatively simple to make a functional quill, it was …
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, paleography is “[t]he study of ancient writing and inscriptions; the science or art of deciphering and interpreting historical manuscripts and writing systems.” In the digital age, you don’t have to be a scholar of …
The scholar Jerome McGann distinguishes between the linguistic and bibliographic codes of textual objects. The linguistic code refers to the textual content, such as the words that comprise The Catcher in the Rye. In contrast, the bibliographic code is the …
Siddhartha: An Interactive Story Hypertext is essentially text that links to other text or information. Thus, a lot of digital text is hypertext. Wikipedia is a prime example of text that is like printed material in some ways but includes …
