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What is an offprint and why was it important in the humanities? This article will approach this question in five steps. Following some terminological remarks and an overview of the… Click to show full abstract
What is an offprint and why was it important in the humanities? This article will approach this question in five steps. Following some terminological remarks and an overview of the format’s history, it examines the offprint’s different uses through major offprint collections held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach. This informs a praxeological analysis of the format and circulation of offprints in the humanities. Finally, I consider contemporary nostalgia for the offprint, due not only to the ongoing digitalization of media, but also to the fact that interactions centered on the offprint used to bolster a particular self-image of the scholarly persona.
Journal Title: History of Humanities
Year Published: 2020
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