Autor: Peter D. McDonald

An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range …

‘Censorship may have to do with literature’, Nadine Gordimer once said, ‘but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.’ As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital border …

‘Censorship may have to do with literature’, Nadine Gordimer once said, ‘but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.’ As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital border …

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. Mc D …

Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. Mc D …

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural s …

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The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘in …

The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls ‘in …