História do Livro (not translated) - 2nd semester
Code
722091130
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
João Luís Lisboa
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To get an autonomous work capacity on book and publishing materials;
b) To use critically methodologies and concepts;
c) To locate forms, uses and concepts of the History of the Book, having in mind current debates on how new means revolution the record and the transmission of texts.
d) To identify and to know the main agents of publishing history in Portugal.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. The book: conception, formats, materials, vocabulary, uses.
2. Major transformations.
3. Uses: spaces, professions, forms and conflicts.
4. Reading in contemporary world.
Bibliography
Anselmo, Artur, Estudos de história do livro, Lisboa, Guimarães editores, 1997.
Chartier, Roger, A mão do autor e a mente do editor, São Paulo, Editora UNESP, 2014.
Curto, Diogo Ramada (coord.), Bibliografia da História do livro em Portugal, séculos XV a XIX, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, 2003.
Darnton, Robert, The case for books. Past, present, and future, New York, Public Affairs, 2009.
Faria, Maria Isabel Faria e Maria da Graça Pericão, Dicionário do livro. Da escrita ao livro electrónico, Coimbra, Almedina, 2008.
McKenzie, D. F., Bibliography and the sociology of texts, London, The British Library, 1986.
Schiffrin, André, O Negócio dos Livros - como grandes grupos económicos decidem o que lemos, Lisboa, Letra livre, 2013.
Suarez, M. e Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the book, 2 vols., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
Weedon, Alexis (ed.), The History of the Book in the West: a Library of Critical Essays, 5 vols. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010.
Teaching method
Dialogued lecture. Analysis of documents.
Evaluation method
Analysis and presentation (oral and written) of an ancient book by the students, from a list of proposals made by the teacher. Oral interventions during the seminar sessions.