CS315 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Avant-Garde, Concrete Poetry
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Eisenstein"s printing press as an agent of change: studies were viewed as by and for disparate groups: typographers, librarians and bibliographers, literary scholars, economists, social historians. Eisentsteins refers favourably to french and british scholars (steinberg) 500 years of printing (steinberg: was most influential, now out of date but "populist". The history of printing is an integral part of the general history of. Burke says everything changed, socially, culturally, economically, in. Western religion because of the advent of the press. Burke provides a broad acknowledgement of the revolution eisenstein. But she was unhappy about how limited the acknowledgement was civilization writes about elsewhere. Eisenstein cites steinberg: neither political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, and economic events, nor sociological, philosophical, and literary movements can be fully understood without taking into account the influence the printing press (continue once posted on mls) Eisenstein points out that our mental habits changed because of the press (mcluhan).
