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Revision as of 12:46, 26 April 2010
Formal closure is the property of a text insofar as that text is inaccessible to modification. Historically, the closed text is a primarily modern phenomenon which became established in the 18th and 19th centuries with systems of literary printing in Europe.
Critical methods: - "Text / Paratext" -- [TO DO]
References
Genette, Gerard. "Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation". Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. 1997.
Hesse, Carla. "Books in Time." From Nunberg, Geoffrey (ed) "The Future of the Book". University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1996. Print.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew. "Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination". The MIT Press: Cambridge. 2008. Print.
Kittler, Friedrich. "Gramophone, Film, Typewriter". Stanford University Press: Stanford. 1999. Print.
Simone, Raffaele. "The Body of the Text." From Nunberg, Geoffrey (ed) "The Future of the Book". University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles. 1996. Print.
Sutherland, Kathryn. "Introduction". From Sutherland, Kathryn (ed) "Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory". Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. 1997. Print.
Vismann,Cornelia. "Files: Law and Media Technology". Stanford University Press: Stanford. 2008. Print.
Williams, William Proctor, and Abbott, Craig S. "An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies". The Modern Language Association of America: New York. 2009. Print.
