Book World Research Articles

TOWARDS A CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO AFRICA TRADITIONAL RELIGION

Inter-Religious dialogue is a demand for the mission. Based on the theological investigation of scholars who explore and write on the subject, the article analyses the theological challenge of Inter-Religious dialogue especially in approaching African Traditional Religions. The discussion concerns the Christian theology of religious pluralism with the local religion in Africa looking at the theological progress, not just from the abstract world of books, but also, from connecting with the life of the people, appreciating and connecting points of convergences with the local culture and religions. Still, a long way to go on the reflection and there needs to open wider our vision concerning the action of the Spirit that has been always present in Africa.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Emergent Literacy and Reading for Children of Taipei

Children’s reading ability plays an important role in the future development and competence of a country. Taipei municipal government was aware of the importance and started a 4-year program of “ Emergent Literacy and Reading for Children” since 2003 in order to facilitate a quality environment for reading atmosphere through a variety of creative reading activities. Hoping that children can start their own journey in the world of books. The “Emergent Literacy and Reading” program has open the door to a wonderful world of reading full of imagination for the children. The efforts of this program has been devoted to the youngsters and hopefully will develop a reading culture of Taipei.

Diversified Services of Delivering the Passion of Reading to Campuses

Living in a world of television, computer games, and a visual online world, children and books become more distant. Reading habits of the next generation determine the future of the nation. Many nations in the world promote a reading environment, raising reading ability as policy priority. The Kaohsiung Public Library has been the landmark of effortful and proactive promotion of reading in southern Taiwan. In recent years, in order to complement school education, and raise national competency, the Kaohsiung Public Library has, based on the principal of “Customer Center, Proactive and Progressive”, reached out to numerous campuses, providing diversified services to promote and raise the level of literacy of school children. Mayor Ju-lan Ye, a great enhancer and promoter of reading, in addition to founding the “Reading with the Mayor: the Chrysanthemum Reading Club” to read with under-privileged groups, has added 5,000,000 NT dollars to the originally allocated budget for the purchase of books for elementary and middle schools to enrich the library collections. Through the various strategies to promote children’s reading, the Kaohsiung Public Library has disseminated the seeds for reading in every corner of campuses where students can read and enrich their lives in the world of books.

The Interior World of Books, Browsing, and Collecting Inside the City

A most desirable and collectable material object is the ubiquitous book. A bound composite of printed pages with words and images, it contains a microcosm of myriad narrative viewpoints, experiences, and imaginations. Metaphorically, a book compactly conceals a kind of interior space that protects the provocative lives of people, their character, ideas, and explorations, thus communicating different scales of interiority. Book collectors, called bibliophiles, revere and covet books as their object of desire. The bibliophile as seeker-collector-seller partakes of simple and complex transactions that essentially protect the lives of the books. This essay concentrates on two main book browsing locations within the urban context of Istanbul, Turkey, and the everyday interior spaces of the sahaf, the secondhand bookseller, who continues a tradition of selling new, pre-owned or secondhand ordinary or rare books. Its text moves between historic information and first-person narrative based on fieldwork to express and expand views of interiority theory, through reality and metaphor. The many scales of individual and collective impulses found inside the city streets and their inserted passage structures are exemplified by the significant simultaneity of the desire for the hand-held object and its hand-to-hand exchange.

Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World. Alexander S. Wilkinson and Graeme J. Kemp, eds. Library of the Written Word 73; The Handpress World 56. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xiii + 287 pp. €126.

Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World. Alexander S. Wilkinson and Graeme J. Kemp, eds. Library of the Written Word 73; The Handpress World 56. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xiii + 287 pp. €126.

Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin’in Paris Bibliotheque Nationale’de Bulunan Cerrahiyyetü’l Haniyye İsimli Eserinin Minyatür Özellikleri

15. yüzyılda Amasya’da doğan Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin; tabâbet ilmini Burhaneddin en-Nahçivâni’den almıştır. Yazdığı tüm eserler tıp ve ilaç terkipleri ile alakalıdır. İlmi merakı ağır basan ve oldukça ilginç bir karaktere sahip olan Sabuncuoğlu 1468’den sonra vefat etmiştir. İlmi kişiliğinin yanı sıra kitaplarının hat yazılarını yazması ve minyatürlerini yapması bakımından sanatsal bir kimliğinin olduğu da bilinen Sabuncuoğlu’nun dünya tıp literatürüne kazandırdığı Cerrahiyyet’ül Haniyye kitabı, Onun tüm bu ilmi ve sanatsal kimliğini harmanlayarak ortaya koyduğu önemli bir eseridir. Cerrahiyyet’ül- Haniyye kitabı tedavi usüllerini anlatan minyatürler içermektedir. Kitap günümüze kadar genel olarak tıp bilim dalı çalışmaları açısından değerlendirilmiş ancak içerdiği Sabuncuoğlu’na ait olan minyatürler hakkında kısıtlı sayıda çalışma yapılmıştır. Bu nedenle, çalışmamızın amacı Cerrahiyyetü’l Haniyye minyatürlerinin sanatsal açıdan değerlendirmelerini yapmaktır. Eserin birinci bâbını oluşturan dağlama tekniklerini konu alan çalışmamızda genel olarak metin minyatür ilişkisi ve minyatürlerin tasarım özellikleri tespit edilmiştir. Birinci bölümde Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin’in hayatı ve çalışmaları anlatılmıştır. İkinci bölümde ise Cerrahiyyetül Haniyye’nin genel ve fiziki özellikleri hakkında bilgi verilmiş, son bölümde minyatürler hakkında genel bir değerlendirme yapılmıştır.

Henri-Jean Martin, historien de l’édition contemporaine

Dans cet article consacré à l’un des pères de la nouvelle histoire du livre, Henri-Jean Martin, Jean-Yves Mollier revient à la fois sur les origines de l’Histoire de l’édition française et sur l’ensemble de l’œuvre de celui qui en assura, avec Roger Chartier et Jean-Pierre Vivet, la direction. Un éclairage est apporté sur le troisième homme de cet attelage un peu insolite, l’éditeur et journaliste Jean-Pierre Vivet, le moins connu des trois maîtres d’œuvre d’une histoire de l’édition qui a fait souche. En mettant à jour une sorte d’archéologie de ce monument, l’article incite le lecteur à comprendre les mécanismes souvent cachés de ce que l’on peut désigner comme une « commande sociale ». La deuxième partie de cette étude est consacrée au reste de l’œuvre et de l’action d’un historien passionné par le monde du livre, de l’Antiquité à nos jours.

AI and Publishing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely seen as the most important technology of our time and has attracted a huge amount of interest regarding not only its technological capabilities but also its economic and ethical impact. It has, however, been less discussed with regard to the book world and publishing. AI is applicable to publishing at multiple levels, all of them significant. It could change the business-processing aspects of publishing; but, even more importantly, the latest advances in machine learning from the likes of Google and OpenAI demonstrate a powerful capacity to translate and even compose text. Publishing and publishing studies alike need to grapple with the implications of a world where machines as well as humans can produce the core product.

Programs about Books and Reading in Central Television

For a long time, various programs about books and reading appeared on TV and then disappeared. They were lost in the TV broadcasting and programs among other programs, cinema films and TV movies. And when programs were closed, they were quickly forgotten. The purpose of this article is to reveal all such TV programs. The author studied the period of more than 50 years. The article gives the names of TV shows about books and reading, belonging to certain channels, and the time of airing. As possible, the author discloses their intent, concepts, content and the names of TV presenters. The sources for the article were weekly bulletins about TV programs, and in the last 30 years — also articles, notes, interviews in professional and general periodicals.In Soviet times, there were TV programs “In the world of books”, “Bookshop”, “Reading circle”. In 1978—1979, the TV presenter of the “Reading circle” was N.M. Sikorsky, then Director of the V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. In post-Soviet Russia, there got more broadcasts of that kind. These were both educational programs (“Book yard”, “Graphoman”, “Exlibris”, “Book storehouse”) and numerous commercial ones (“Bookstore”, “Home library”, “Bibliomania”, “World of books with Leonid Kuravlev”, “Book news”, “Book world”). The author gives more details are tells about the program “Graphoman”, which was invented and presented by A.N. Shatalov, the poet, critic and publisher. The program originated in 1994 and was broadcast on various channels for more than 10 years. Programs of the recent years are “Book for breakfast”, “Various Readings”, “Words order”, “Figure of speech”, “Pro-Reading”, “Book measurement”, “What to read?”. For over half a century, television actively supported the initiators and creators of various programs that promoted books and reading. This activity has slightly declined in recent years. But viewers continue to learn from the TV screen about new books and watch events in the book industry.

Elijah of Fulda and the 1710 Amsterdam Edition of the Palestinian Talmud1

Abstract Elijah of Fulda was the first Ashkenazi Jew in the Early Modern period to write a commentary on the Palestinian Talmud, printed in Amsterdam in 1710. Through a close reading of the nine approbations that preface Elijah’s commentary, this article reconstructs his itinerary throughout Europe and his journey from relative obscurity to the center of the Hebrew and Jewish book world of his day ‐ Amsterdam. The article argues that although other commentaries replaced that of Elijah of Fulda in popularity in subsequent editions, he should be remembered as the first to establish a tradition of Ashkenazic study of the Palestinian Talmud, and as the scholar who shaped the impagination of subsequent editions.

Patricia Neville, Janet Frame’s World of Books

Patricia Neville’s Janet Frame’s World of Books is a fascinating study of Frame’s world of words, born from a life-long interest in books and reading. It is a very well documented and illustrated study, based on thorough research and deep familiarity with Frame’s works. Neville follows Frame from her childhood as an avid reader and precocious writer (in Dot’s Little Folk) to her writing career, in a masterful demonstration that one can become a writer only by having read a lot. In the introdu...

Analisis Uji Kelayakan Buku Dasar Listrik dan Elektronika Kelas X Sekolah Menegah Kejuruan

he position of a textbook is very important in the world of education and is a source for teachers and students. The development of the world of books in Indonesia, which has continued rapidly until now, has provided many choices for educational institutions, teachers, and students to get the various books they want. Selection of books that are appropriate, easy to understand and learn, contain content that is in accordance with the applicable curriculum, and students will support the achievement of learning objectives. This research aims to determine the feasibility and utilization of the Basic Electricity and Electronics book. The research use a descriptive method. The subject of this research is the book Basic Electricity and Electronics Class X Mediatama publisher by Dewi Wahyuningsih. Respondents of research are students of class X TITL and teachersof Basic Electrical and Electronics subjects. The data was taken using a questionnaire created using google form. Therefore the Covid-19 so that the distribution of the questionnaire was carried out online. Data analysis was percentage technique. The results of research was obtained that the teacher responses to the content and presentation feasibility include the good criteria, while the students' responses to the use of book include the good criteria.

Robert Darnton, A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

Robert Darnton, <i>A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution</i>

News, Programs, Publications, and Awards

News, Programs, Publications, and Awards

Curt Sachs Is No Longer Number One! Confronting Chinese Students’ Expectations of Essentialist Theorizing in Dance Research

ABSTRACT Chinese postgraduate dance students can be surprised by epistemological expectations when commencing research degrees outside China. This can result from translations into Mandarin of very dated dance scholarship from Europe. Specifically, Curt Sachs’ 1933 book World History of the Dance continues as a pervasive representation of Western dance scholarship in current dance research published in Mandarin. Within this article we collate key examples of academic literature published in Mandarin during the last twenty years to show how World History of the Dance continues to be used to support essentialism in dance research in China. We connect this with critical arguments from international dance scholars, identifying why Sachs’ publications from the early 20th century have been rejected within English language academic journals. While this comparative analysis of dance scholarship reveals deep epistemological differences across learning cultures, this paper further evidences how essentialist theories can construct cultural hierarchies in dance.

Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Wilkinson, Alexander S., and Graeme J. Kemp.

Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World, edited by Wilkinson, Alexander S., and Graeme J. Kemp.

A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

The “leftovers of empire”: Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize

ABSTRACT“International” novel prizes in English not only exclude the majority of Commonwealth writers: they perpetuate a colonial narrative of cultural superiority and authority. Local and regional book prizes are devalued in favour of “international” recognition, but too little is understood of the politics and business of the English-speaking book world, of the continued market domination of publishing in London and New York, and the cultural implications of valuing non-Indigenous narratives and diasporic literature over local anglophone publishing. Barriers to entry for Commonwealth writers – particularly Indigenous writers – include rights sales to the UK and therefore eligibility for “international” prizes. The recent backlash against admitting US writers to the Booker reveals the perception of Commonwealth writers – both by British publishers and by writers – as a distant third in anglophone writing, easily forgotten and excluded from publishing lists, prize contention, and judging panels.

Éditorial. Melbourne and the Australian book world in 2020

Éditorial. Melbourne and the Australian book world in 2020