SURFACE READING & THE MATERIALITY OF COMMUNICATION

6.7

What about your own books?

Paper & Pencil Task

Please do one of the following tasks:

Take any two books you own or can access in two editions, e.g. hardback/paperback, first edition/modern edition, paperback/ebook, hardback/online…

or

Take ‘In a Station of the Metro’ in Lustra of Ezra Pound and its original publication in the April 1913 issue of Poetry

…and describe in as much detail as possible 1) the differences between the two editions and 2) what difference that makes to you, i.e., how these two editions affect you differently and elicit a different response from you.

Lizenz

University of Basel