Text Technologies

Thoughts on the textual and literary, & on text technologies from Babylonian cuneiform to Twitter, with an eye on the medieval

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Swerving from the Straight and Narrow: Greenblatt's Fictional Medieval Period

Although Stephen Greenblatt published his blockbuster The Swerve in 2011, a recent book review in the Los Angeles Review of Books ( http://...

Friday, November 30, 2012

Space

All TEXT is is potential. That's evident from images of medieval manuscripts where the notable letters, the flourished initials, have be...

Friday, October 26, 2012

Filling space

TEXT is art, words, symbols, code. It is the object, the artefact, that contains the communication. Manuscript books or fragments, in their ...

Thursday, September 27, 2012

When is a Text not a Text?

We've been discussing 'Text' again in class, as part of 'Text Technologies: A History'. So, we pondered when is a Text n...

Friday, August 31, 2012

One-eyed monsters in the desert

Morongo Hotel and Spa, Cabazon, CA (actually in the desert) This is not an advertisement advocating the benefits of the desert casino ...

Friday, August 17, 2012

Landscape as Text

As a family (husband, two children, two dogs, one cat), we very recently drove across America, so that I could take up my new post as Profes...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Fragmenting the Past through Dispersing Collections of Books

Joseph Mendham, a nineteenth-century Anglican writer, 'controversialist' and book-collector, has been in the news today, as the subj...

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Text Technologies: a History

Elaine Treharne: Stanford, California, United States; Welsh medievalist, working on English literary manuscripts, the history of text technologies and the phenomenology of the book.

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