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📢 New Book Alert!

📜 'Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World' is out now!

Textual practices in #premodern societies cover many representations, from the #literary to the #pictorial. Among the most intriguing are #synopses and lists. While lists provide a complete enumeration of ideas, people, events, or terms, synopses juxtapose one against the other.

To understand how they were planned, produced, and consumed, is to gain insight into the practices of what one can call the management of #knowledge in a time before our own.

This volume offers a #historical and transcultural perspective on synopses and lists, highlighting the centrality of these textual practices to allow storing, retrieving, selecting, and organising this knowledge. Both make deliberate – yet not always explicit – choices as to what is included and excluded, thereby creating lasting hierarchies and canons.

Download for free/get a copy: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0375

Techies: So, anyways... #Google started #featuring #synopses of your #stories on their #news and #search #pages, which gave people an idea of what the story was, and a #link to your site so they could read the whole thing.

#Canadian #Legacy #Media: We remember that. The #nerds said they could tell where the #traffic was coming from. We said it always comes from the left, so look that way first.

Techies: Maybe it was fifth percentile.

#Government: Big Tech ...

Techies: Cram it.

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