SMC228H1 Lecture 1: Sept13
21 Sep 2016
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The difference btw the terms: book, text, work, state, issue, form, and content. A written or printed treatise, occupying several sheets of paper or some other substance fastened together so as to compose a material whole. A literary composition without regard to material form. People used the word book to refer to a literary work more often than to a physical artefact. Books are works of art artefacts and utilitarian objects. The systematic description and history of books, their authorship, printing, publication, editions, etc. Works: something represented and transmitted by a text or texts (more vague) Texts: specific copies of a work (more specific) Issue: all copies of an impression that bear some distinctive feature marking them as distinct from other copies of the same impression. State: a part of a book exhibiting variation from the same part in other copies of the same impression.
