Paper Session 5: Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation
Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of York)
Moderator: Arthur Bahr (Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Niv Allon (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“Gem wesh (found missing): Representing Ancient Fragmentary Texts and Their Lacunae”
Kristopher Driggers (University of Chicago)
“Manuscript Alteration and Stylistic Evolution: Why Codex Durán Kept its Changes Visible”
Megan Heffernan (DePaul University)
“‘Filthy, Tattered, and Torn’: Disbound Manuscripts and the History of Waste”
Clare Mullaney (University of Pennsylvania)
“Dickinson’s Fragments: Limitation, Constraint, and an Early History of Print Disability”
See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.
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