Description
The monograph examines the relationship between the technology of writing, the genesis of texts, and the poetics of literary works. At the center of interest is the competition between manual and machine writing as two fundamental technological processes that entered into significant contact from the 1880s until the end of the 1980s, when electronic media replaced the typewriter. It reveals that initially, the typewriter was perceived as a compensatory tool for the disabled. However, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this invention found its advocates among journalists and prose writers. It erased any individuality of handwriting, and the response was the emergence of authorial books as complex artifacts. Typewriting was considered a typically female profession - but were Czech female writers really typists?
Information
Author: Piorecká Kateřina
Publication date: November 11, 2016
Manufacturer: Středisko spol. činností AV ČR, v. v. i.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Pages: 352
ISBN/EAN: 9788020026163