Unauthorized
Adrian Johns argues in his book the inevitability of a trusted print culture, through the inaccurate assumption of fixity by authors and printers. Johns explains that it was the efforts of authors,...
View ArticleScholars, Pirates, and No Grammar Whatsoever
In “Some Features of Print Culture,” Elizabeth Eisenstein focuses on the positives attributes of the print revolution in relationship to scholarship, knowledge, and new ideas. The dissemination of...
View ArticleThe Sliding Scale of Idealism vs Cynicism
Adrian Johns and Elizabeth Eisenstein advance contrasting interpretations of the immediate impacts of the printing press on the availability of knowledge, the general literacy of the populace, and the...
View ArticleHow Do We Claim Legitimacy?
In Elizabeth Eisenstein’s, Some Features of Print Culture, she examines how the printing press has revolutionized many aspects of the world. Her article is pro-print culture, as she praises all aspects...
View ArticleImpact of the Printing Revolution
Print culture completely revolutionized the world, but it took awhile for the people of the times to believe it and to live by it. Some Features of Print Culture by Adrian Johns and The Nature of the...
View ArticleDiffering Views on Print Culture
Adrian Johns and Elizabeth Eisenstein’s views on the print revolution differed greatly since Eisenstein argued that print provided a fixity to writing and thereby a standard for the truth. Johns on...
View ArticleDifferences in Opinion
In the two articles we read for class, both authors attempt to examine the so-called “print revolution.” Both present a response to whether or not they believe that early printing was reliable for...
View ArticleLegitmacy in the Balance
The rise of print culture is argued by both Johns and Eisenstein in the articles we read this week. Johns argues the negative outlook in the rise of print culture whereas Eisenstein presents the...
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