McKenzie, D.F. “The Book as an Expressive Form.” The Book History Reader. Ed. David Finkelstein and Alistar McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. 27-38. Print. I: Thesis: McKenzie’s “purpose in these lectures… is to simply consider anew what bibliography is and how it related to other disciplines” (27). He elaborates, “it seems to me that it would now be more useful to describe bibliography as the study of the sociology of texts” (29). Encouraged… Read More

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Section I  McKenzie, D. F. “The Book as an Expressive Form.” The Book History Reader. Ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. 27-38. Print. McKenzie’s thesis relates to a quotation by Sir Walter Greg, which states, “what the bibliographer is concerned with is pieces of paper or parchment covered with certain written or printed signs. With these signs he is concerned merely as arbitrary marks; their meaning is no business… Read More

Ryan Emerick McKenzie, D.F. “The Book as an Expressive Form.”  The Book History Reader.  David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery.  New York: Routledge, 2002.  27-38.  Web. Thesis: “The principle I wish to suggest as basic is simply this: bibliography is the discipline that studies texts as recorded forms, and the processes of their transmission, including their production and reception… It also frankly accepts that bibliographers should be concerned to show that form affects meaning… Read More