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Kwakkel, Erik

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“…The courtly chivalric romances concerning King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, for example, have had a long-lasting impact. Before movable-type printing in Europe (~1450 CE), handwritten documents (manuscripts) were used for the sustainable storage of text (10). In some places, such as Ireland and Iceland, manuscript circulation continued in this role into the modern era.…”

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Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture

Kestemont

Karsdorp

Bruijn

et al. 2022

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The study of ancient cultures is hindered by the incomplete survival of material artifacts, so we commonly underestimate the diversity of cultural production in historic societies. To correct this survivorship bias, we applied unseen species models from ecology to gauge the loss of narratives from medieval Europe, such as the romances about King Arthur. The estimates obtained are compatible with the scant historic evidence. In addition to events such as library fires, we identified the original evenness of cultural populations as an overlooked factor in these assemblages’ stability in the face of immaterial loss. We link the elevated evenness in island literatures to analogous accounts of ecological and cultural diversity in insular communities. These analyses call for a wider application of these methods across the heritage sciences.

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Karsdorp

Bruijn

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“…Any new text could be comparatively rapidly set and easily reproduced. The printing press turned books and booklets and single-sheet brochures or chapbooks into mass products: written texts were not for storage only (see Krauß et al (2020) and Kwakkel (2018)).…”

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Intermedial Studies

Bruhn¹,

Schirrmacher²

2021

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Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of mediaincluding literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and non-fiction, mass media and social media.The detailed introduction offers a short history of the field and outlines the main theoretical approaches. Part I explains the approach, examining and exemplifying the dimensions that construct every media product. The following sections offer practical examples and case studies using many examples that will be familiar to students, from Sherlock Holmes and football, to news, vlogs and videogames.This book is the only textbook that takes both a theoretical and practical approach to intermedial studies. The book will be of use to students from a variety of disciplines looking at any form of adaptation, from comparative literature to film adaptations, fan fictions and spoken performances. The book equips students with the language and understanding to confidently and competently apply their own intermedial analysis to any text.

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