Thursday, November 27, 2008

Elizabeth Eisenstein, Invention of Printing

Elizabeth Eisenstein identifies two lengthy term effect of the discovery of printing. She claim that Online printing created a continued and uniform orientation for knowledge as well as allows for contrast between unsuited views.

As Briggs and Peter Burke recognize different kinds of analysis that developed in relative to the introduction of Online printing.

1. Inspired Analysis - Printing permitted people to read text and interpret them imaginatively, often in very diverse ways than the author planned.

2. Extensive Analysis - Printing allowed for a broad range of texts to become accessible, thus, previous method of intensive analysis of texts from start to end, began to vary

3. Private Analysis - This is associated to the rise of uniqueness. Before print, analysis was often a group occasion, where one person would study to a set of people. With print, literacy rise as did accessibility of texts, thus analysis became a single pursuit.

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