L’essor recent de l’offre et de la demande de livres numeriques a precipite le developpement des collections des bibliotheques publiques en mode immateriel. Les prets de livres numeriques effectues par les bibliotheques sont le reflet des comportements d’emprunt des usagers. La nature et l’amplitude des prets de livres numeriques au Quebec demeurent meconnues. Cette relative meconnaissance origine de la nature nouvelle du phenomene numerique et de l’absence d’etudes en la matiere. Cet article dresse un portrait des prets de livres numeriques effectues par les bibliotheques publiques autonomes du Quebec a l’aide des donnees de 2013 et 2014. Il en ressort que l’emprunt de livres numeriques est une pratique essentiellement urbaine, qui concerne davantage les livres pour adultes, de fiction qui plus est.
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A key moment in the emergence of the history of the book as an independent discipline occurred in summer 1980, when the participants at the international conference “Books and Society in History” in Boston gathered to issue a manifesto defining the field and calling for institutional funding to support research. Thirty-five years on, my essay draws on my experience as an editor of and contributor to the A History of the Book in America series to explore how that History came to be shaped by discussions during a series of editorial board meetings during the 1990s. I conclude by suggesting a few ways that scholars and historians might now build on those foundations for future directions in their work in book history.
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Qu’est-ce que les fictions de la vie litteraire ont a nous apprendre sur le livre, l’edition, la lecture et sur les acteurs qui animent toute la chaine du livre? Fruits des representations que se font les ecrivains du milieu ou ils evoluent, les romans qui mettent en scene la vie litteraire possedent un savoir reflexif particulier sur l’univers du livre. C’est a ce corpus etonnamment vaste des romans de la vie litteraire du xixe au xxie siecle que le Gremlin (Groupe de recherche sur les mediations litteraires et les institutions) a dedie l’essentiel de ses recherches. La publication d’ouvrages collectifs et de numeros de revue (Fictions du champ litteraire et Boheme sans frontiere en 2010, « Le livre dans le livre » en 2011, Imaginaires de la vie litteraire en 2012, Romans a cles en 2014) s’est ajoutee a la publication en ligne des bibliographies des romans francais et quebecois de la vie litteraire et d’une vaste base de donnees contenant des fiches detaillees de plus de 80 romans (voir le site legremlin.org). Son intense activite de rassemblement de materiel brut et d’articles d’analyse (une centaine) a permis au Gremlin de cartographier le territoire de la vie litteraire fictionnelle en France. C’est quelques-uns de ces perimetres (la transmission de l’objet-livre, la mise en abyme du processus createur a meme la fiction, les formes de sociabilite comme les salons et les cenacles comme lieux de rencontre des acteurs fictifs principaux de la vie litteraire) que cet article s’attachera a dessiner. A titre d’exemple, je me pencherai plus longuement sur les figurations de l’editeur dans le roman francais. Autrefois presque invisibles dans les romans de la vie litteraire francais, les personnages d’editeurs abondent desormais : partant du roman qui a faconne durablement l’image fictionnelle de l’editeur, Illusions perdues de Balzac (1839), je remonterai jusqu’a l’epoque contemporaine pour etudier (chez Echenoz, Pennac, Robbe-Grillet, Christine Angot, etc.) les figurations de l’editeur : ses traits physiques, ses lieux de sociabilite, sa fonction sociale et sa parole. Je montrerai que, contrairement a ce qui etait de mise jusque dans les annees 1970, cette derniere est souvent elevee a l’echelon de la parole de l’ecrivain fictif pour exprimer la resistance a la marchandisation de la production litteraire.
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S’appuyant sur des travaux de recherche en histoire du livre a la fois nombreux et tres fouilles, les chercheurs en sont venus a rejeter les anciens modeles axes sur le changement revolutionnaire et le determinisme technologique pour explorer plutot les themes de l’evolution et de la transformation organique. De la meme maniere, l’ancien recit d’une histoire du livre unitaire et eurocentriste cede la place a quantite de recits paralleles de l’adaptation, par l’humain, des nouvelles technologies aux besoins emergents et aux nouvelles occasions d’affaires. Cet article pose que l’etude de l’histoire du livre se prete en fait a une reflexion quant a la facon dont on confere une forme materielle au savoir et aux histoires. Il fait etat de propositions recentes particulierement prometteuses et identifie la recherche, la theorie et la pedagogie en tant que vecteurs d’une comprehension plus vaste. Non plus abordee comme une discipline universitaire, l’histoire du livre est vue comme une « interdiscipline », un espace intellectuel au sein duquel des chercheurs preconisant des approches disciplinaires diverses se penchent sur une meme et vaste categorie conceptuelle.
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Dans cet article, je reviens sur la naissance de l’Histoire de l’edition francaise (4 volumes publies en 1982-1986) et sur la commande passee par un editeur, Jean-Pierre Vivet, a Henri-Jean Martin, specialiste de l’histoire du livre, qui recruta ensuite Roger Chartier pour repondre avec lui au defi intellectuel pose par cette proposition. Contingent par consequent, relevant de ce que l’on appelle une « commande » editoriale, ce projet allait cependant marquer l’ensemble de la communaute scientifique internationale et deboucher sur de multiples ecritures « nationales » d’histoires du livre, de l’edition et de la lecture dans le monde. Aux deux derniers congres du Comite international des sciences historiques de Sydney en 2005, et Amsterdam en 2010, la question d’une ecriture nationale ou transnationale du livre a ete posee et elle l’a ete de nouveau a Jinan en aout 2015, preuve de l’existence d’un veritable debat sur l’orientation fondamentale qui doit etre la notre en histoire du livre. En examinant les resultats de ces congres et en prenant en compte les congres regionaux et internationaux de SHARP qui ont aborde ces thematiques dans les annees 2000-2010, notamment les congres de Rio de Janeiro et de Monterey, il est possible de montrer comment la perspective internationale a modifie les perspectives passees et reoriente la discipline vers une approche davantage transculturelle, difficile a mettre en oeuvre mais prometteuse pour l’avenir. A sa maniere, ce changement de cap, ou de paradigme, s’inscrit dans une perspective d’histoire globale qui remet en cause les frontieres et leur pertinence pour comprendre les phenomenes de transferts culturels.
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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.
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In 1940, Virginia Woolf blamed the printing press for killing the oral tradition that had promoted authorial anonymity: “Anon is dead,” she pronounced. Scholarship on the printed word has abundantly recognized that, far from being dead, Anon remained very much alive in Britain through the end of the nineteenth century. Even in the twentieth century, Anon lived on, among particular groups and particular genres, yet little scholarship has addressed this endurance. Here, after defining anonymity and sketching its history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, I offer three findings. First, women had less need for anonymity as they gained civil protections elsewhere, but anonymity still appealed to writers made vulnerable by their marginalized identities or risky views. Second, in the early twentieth century the genre most likely to go unsigned was autobiography, in all its forms. Third, on rare occasions, which I enumerate, strict anonymity achieves what pseudonymity cannot. I conclude by suggesting that among British modernist authors, the decline of practiced anonymity stimulated desired anonymity and the prizing of anonymity as an aesthetic ideal.
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Le passage de l’oralite a l’ecriture fait disparaitre les caracteristiques inherentes a l’oralite. Mais plus encore qu’un simple changement de canal (de la voix a l’imprime), la publication de recits de la tradition orale implique une metamorphose de tout l’acte de communication. Elle fait en outre surgir des problemes ethiques lies a l’appropriation culturelle. Les auteurs et les editeurs qui choisissent de publier les recits oraux autochtones doivent adopter des pratiques propres a legitimer leur demarche. Quelles strategies, auctoriales ou editoriales, emploient les acteurs du livre pour justifier les changements de destinataires, de destinateurs, de code et meme, souvent, du message lui-meme? Par quel processus un auteur, un editeur, s’octroie-il ou se voit-il octroyer le capital culturel necessaire a valider le role de passeur qu’il se donne? Mon analyse s’attarde a trois cas de figure : un essai ethnologique (La foret vive, de Remi Savard, Boreal, 2004); une adaptation litteraire (Anish-Nah-Be, de Bernard Assiniwi, Lemeac, 1971); et une publication issue d’une communaute autochtone (La femme venue du ciel, de Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Hannenorak, 2011).
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In the 1990s and 2000s, national histories of the book achieved a double milestone: firstly, they marked the coming to maturity of the subdiscipline of the history of the book itself, especially in English-speaking countries; at the same time they established landmarks in the cultural history of their own countries. My presentation will discuss the fate and the impact of national book histories from the point of view of the History of the Book in Australia, which I coedited and to which I contributed several chapters.Two historiographical events have challenged the agenda of national book histories. The ‘transnational turn’ has thrown into question the fundamental framework which governed their conception and production. To a lesser extent, the growth of the digital humanities also makes a radical departure from the ‘traditional’ research methods of the 1990s. My presentation will assess the legacy of the History of the Book in Australia so far, and ask whether national book history has any role to play in the age of transnational approaches. I will suggest in answer to my own question that there remains a place at the table for all three levels—transnational, national and also micro-histories of the book.
{"title":"National Histories of the Book in a Transnational Age","authors":"M. Lyons","doi":"10.7202/1036855AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1036855AR","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1990s and 2000s, national histories of the book achieved a double milestone: firstly, they marked the coming to maturity of the subdiscipline of the history of the book itself, especially in English-speaking countries; at the same time they established landmarks in the cultural history of their own countries. My presentation will discuss the fate and the impact of national book histories from the point of view of the History of the Book in Australia, which I coedited and to which I contributed several chapters.Two historiographical events have challenged the agenda of national book histories. The ‘transnational turn’ has thrown into question the fundamental framework which governed their conception and production. To a lesser extent, the growth of the digital humanities also makes a radical departure from the ‘traditional’ research methods of the 1990s. My presentation will assess the legacy of the History of the Book in Australia so far, and ask whether national book history has any role to play in the age of transnational approaches. I will suggest in answer to my own question that there remains a place at the table for all three levels—transnational, national and also micro-histories of the book.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129434958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
National book history projects are both informative and provocative: informative for the resources they assemble and the knowledge they promote, and provocative for their omissions and limitations. The History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l’imprime au Canada (3 vols 2004-2007) provided a remarkable opportunity for a large community of researchers across the country to investigate myriad aspects of Canada’s print culture in an increasingly multicultural population. Their focal points included authorship, publishing, distribution, and reading. The project established a baseline for subsequent studies in areas that were revealed to be under-researched and it continues to inspire new scholarly investigations. Working in both official languages, HBiC/HLIC’s editorial team forged a model for bilingual scholarly dissemination, a format that is surprisingly rare in the humanities in Canada. At the national level, its three volumes and many offshoots have enriched Canadians’ knowledge about themselves; at the international level, the project has established the presence of a relatively small country within the realm of global book history. As international book history scholars become increasingly conscious of the need to situate their investigations within trans-national contexts, we invite them to consider Canada’s stories and examples.
{"title":"History of the Book in Canada: The View from Here","authors":"C. Gerson","doi":"10.7202/1036856AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1036856AR","url":null,"abstract":"National book history projects are both informative and provocative: informative for the resources they assemble and the knowledge they promote, and provocative for their omissions and limitations. The History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l’imprime au Canada (3 vols 2004-2007) provided a remarkable opportunity for a large community of researchers across the country to investigate myriad aspects of Canada’s print culture in an increasingly multicultural population. Their focal points included authorship, publishing, distribution, and reading. The project established a baseline for subsequent studies in areas that were revealed to be under-researched and it continues to inspire new scholarly investigations. Working in both official languages, HBiC/HLIC’s editorial team forged a model for bilingual scholarly dissemination, a format that is surprisingly rare in the humanities in Canada. At the national level, its three volumes and many offshoots have enriched Canadians’ knowledge about themselves; at the international level, the project has established the presence of a relatively small country within the realm of global book history. As international book history scholars become increasingly conscious of the need to situate their investigations within trans-national contexts, we invite them to consider Canada’s stories and examples.","PeriodicalId":130512,"journal":{"name":"Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127170330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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