Written culture: reading pratices and printed book

Authors

  • Lidia Eugenia Cavalcante Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) - CE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2009v14nesp1p1

Keywords:

Written culture, History of the book, Book and reading, Printed

Abstract

The history of the written culture and the reading practices is the subject argued in this article. It aims at to understand the trajectory of the printed book in its materiality, as well as the processes delineated from the undisputed cultural presence and politics of this support for the modern society. Search to evidence the reading practices, the phenomena and the mutations that fortify such support per centuries, approaching the “book crisis”, its causes and effects. Therefore, it deals with the particularitities of the written culture, that if they had accomplished in the Siècle des Lumières and if they had consecrated in “acting” of the spirit of the authors and the readers of that time, whose propagation influenced the western person. It analyzes the sociological and historical conditions of the place of the modern reader between Science, Philosophy and Romance, continuously transformed for the renewal of the thought and the culture.

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Author Biography

Lidia Eugenia Cavalcante, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) - CE

Doutora em Educação
Professora do Departamento de Ciências da Informação
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) - CE

Published

2009-07-15

How to Cite

CAVALCANTE, Lidia Eugenia. Written culture: reading pratices and printed book. Encontros Bibli: revista eletrônica de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação, [S. l.], p. 1–12, 2009. DOI: 10.5007/1518-2924.2009v14nesp1p1. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2009v14nesp1p1. Acesso em: 16 may. 2024.

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