scholarly journals O lugar do livro e da leitura no Maranhão Oitocentista: o Gabinete Português de Leitura

Author(s):  
César Augusto Castro ◽  
Samuel Luis Velázquez Castellanos

Os catálogos de biblioteca têm se constituído como importante recurso para o resgate da história do livro e dos processos de produção, circulação e das práticas leitoras em diferentes lugares e por públicos distintos. Apresenta-se o catálogo da biblioteca do Gabinete Português de Leitura do Maranhão, destacando a trajetória do livro no Maranhão no período oitocentista, como forma de compreender o processo de circulação e finalidades desse bem cultural; a história do Gabinete Português de Leitura, pontuando suas normas, finalidades e critérios normativos para os associados; e a análise do catálogo da Biblioteca desse instituto, destacando a classificação e ordenação dos livros, bem como as principais classes consultadas. Constata-se que este catálogo foi elaborado como forma de desenvolver estratégias de controle e consulta ao acervo, além de verificar a natureza das obras e indicar as leituras permissivas na biblioteca.AbstractThe library catalogs have been established as an important resource for the rescue of book history and the processes of production, circulation and reading practices in different places and for different audiences. We present a catalog of the library of Portuguese Reading Cabinet in Maranhão, highlighting the history of the book in Maranhão in nineteenth-century period, as a way to understand the process and purpose of this cultural movement as well; the history of Portuguese Reading Cabinet, punctuating his standards, objectives and regulatory criteria for members; and the analysis of the catalog of the library of this institute, highlighting the classification and ordering of books, and the main classes consulted. It appears that this catalog has been prepared in order to develop strategies to control and consult the collection and to verify the nature of the works and indicate the permissive readings in the library.KeywordsPortuguese Reading Cabinet. Library. Catalog.

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉSAR AUGUSTO CASTRO ◽  
SAMUEL LUIS VELáZQUEZ CASTELLANOS

Os catálogos de biblioteca têm se constituá­do como importante recurso para o resgate da história do livro e dos processos de produção, circulação e das práticas leitoras em diferentes lugares e por públicos distintos. Apresenta-se o catálogo da biblioteca do Gabinete Português de Leitura do Maranhão, destacando a trajetória do livro no Maranhão no perá­odo oitocentista, como forma de compreender o processo de circulação e finalidades desse bem cultural; a história do Gabinete Português de Leitura, pontuando suas normas, finalidades e critérios normativos para os associados; e a análise do catálogo da Biblioteca desse instituto, destacando a classificação e ordenação dos livros, bem como as principais classes consultadas. Constata-se que este catálogo foi elaborado como forma de desenvolver estratégias de controle e consulta ao acervo, além de verificar a natureza das obras e indicar as leituras permissivas na biblioteca. Palavras-chave: Gabinete Português de Leitura. Biblioteca. Catálogo.  THE PORTUGUESE OFFICE OF READING: the place for book and reading in 19th century MaranhãoAbstract: The library catalogs have been established as an important resource for the rescue of book history and the processes of production, circulation and reading practices in different places and for different audiences. We present the catalog of the library of Portuguese Reading Cabinet in Maranhão, highlighting the history of the book in Maranhão in 19th century as a way to understand the process and purpose of this cultural movement as well; the history of Portuguese Reading Cabinet highlighting his standards, objectives and regulatory criteria for members; and the analysis of the Institute”™s library catalog, highlighting the classification and ordering of books and the main classes consulted. It appears that this catalog was prepared in order to develop strategies to control and consult the collection and to verify the nature of the works and indicate the permissive readings in the library. Keywords: Portuguese Reading Cabinet. Library. Catalog.   EL GABINETE PORTUGUÉS DE LECTURA: el lugar del libro y de la lectura en el Maranhão del siglo XIXResumen: Los catálogos de biblioteca se constituyen como importante recurso para el rescate de la historia del libro y de los procesos de producción, circulación y de las prácticas lectoras en diferentes espacios y por el publico diferenciado. Se presenta el catálogo de la biblioteca del Gabinete Portugués de Lectura de Maranhão, destacando la trayectoria del libro en Maranhão, durante el siglo XIX, como un modo de comprender el proceso de circulación y finalidades del bien cultural; la historia del Gabinete Portugués de Lectura, señalando sus normas, finalidades y criterios normativos para los asociados; y el análisis del catalogo de Biblioteca de ese instituto, destacando la clasificación y ordenación de los libros, asá­ como las principales clases consultadas. Se constata que este catálogo fue elaborado como forma de desarrollar estrategias de control y consulta al acervo , además de verificar la naturaleza de las obras e indicar las lecturas permisivas en la biblioteca. Palabras clave: Gabinete Portugues de Lectura. Biblioteca. Catálogo.


AJS Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-357
Author(s):  
Adam Shear

In the last several decades, the study of reading, writing, and publishing has emerged as a lively field of inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Historians and literary scholars have engaged with a number of questions about the impact of changes in technology on reading practices and particularly on the relationship between new technologies of reading and writing and social, religious, and political change. The new field of the “history of the book,” merging aspects of social and intellectual history with the tools of analytical and descriptive bibliography, came to the fore in the second half of the twentieth century at the same time that the emergence of new forms of electronic media raised many questions for social scientists about the ways that technological change have affected aspects of human communication in our time. Meanwhile, while the field of book history emerged initially among early modernists interested in the impact of printing technology, the issues raised regarding authorship, publication, relations between orality and the written word, dissemination, and reception have enriched the study of earlier periods.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Howsam

An impressive body of meticulous scholarship in the history of the book has led scholars to reject outmoded models of revolutionary change and technological determinism, and instead to explore themes of evolution and organic change. Similarly, the old unitary and Eurocentric book history is being supplanted by a series of parallel narratives where the focus is on human adaptation of new technologies to newly felt needs and fresh marketing opportunities. The article suggests that the study of book history is a way of thinking about how people have given material form to knowledge and stories. It highlights some particularly ambitious recent arguments, and emphasizes research, theory and pedagogy as the means to a wider understanding. Rather than being an academic discipline, book history is identified as an “interdiscipline,” an intellectual space where scholars practicing different disciplinary approaches and methodologies address the same capacious conceptual category.


PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-194
Author(s):  
Rachel Sagner Buurma ◽  
Jon Shaw

The Bibliographic Records in Libraries' Searchable Online Public Access Catalogs (Opac) Have Recently Taken on a New Role as a source of bibliographic data that can be aggregated, shared, circulated, manipulated, transformed, studied, and interpreted. Scholars' new awareness of library catalogs not just as aids to locating books and other materials but as sources of bibliographic information that researchers can manipulate and transform has inspired new scholarship on the history of the catalog and a new focus on how the catalog, in both its analog and digital forms, shapes bibliographic knowledge. Our Early Novels Dataset (END) project, for example, uses methods from book history, library science, and literary studies to think about the shape and history of the bibliographic metadata in the library catalog. Our research group's collective experiments with bibliographic metadata ask what happens when we look at the library catalog record not just as a utilitarian aid for searching or as an object of critique, but also as a work in progress with a literary character of its own. We ask what we can learn from the shape given to bibliographic information by the earlier catalogers whose records our project inherited and on whose expertise we draw. We also ask how the familiar languages of the library catalog record and the controlled bibliographic description might help make new forms of knowledge about books. And we press on the inevitable and generative tension between the particular perspective of the library catalogers who transform specific copies of physical books into bibliographic data and the informational fields dictated by machine-readable cataloging (MARC) descriptive standards.


2009 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Price

The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but of the book. Turning to the nineteenth-century genre of "it-narrative"——which traces the travel of a book among a series of owners and handlers——it asks how such a narrative might compare to more familiar accounts of selves shaped by texts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Jessie Sherwood

When he declared, “the physical book really has had a 500-year run” in a 2009 interview, Jeff Bezos might well be forgiven for thinking that the book began with Gutenberg. Histories of the book have tended to give the impression that it emerged with movable type and existed largely, if not exclusively, in Mainz, New York, London, Paris, Venice, and environs. The first edition to A Companion to the History of the Book, first published in 2007, was a welcome, albeit modest, corrective to this narrow focus. While the bulk of its attention was on print in Western Europe and the United States, it incorporated chapters on manuscripts, books in Asia and Latin America, and the Hebraic and Islamic traditions, broadening the scope of book history both chronologically and geographically.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Henson

This article introduces twelve new Verdi letters and other operatic and musical theater sources in the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings. The materials hail from the French baritone Victor Maurel (1848-1923), Verdi's first Iago and first Falstaff, and from his second wife, the musical theater librettist and screenwriter Frederique Rosine de Gresac (1866/7-1943). The letters and other sources constitute an important resource for not only nineteenth-century opera and operatic performance but also the early American musical, film studies, the history of women, even the history of celebrity. The Verdi letters concern Maurel's creation of the role of Falstaff and include a intriguing debate about preparing for the role and singing generally.


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