During the Third Congress of Malay Language and Letters of 1956, the nascent Malaysian government announced the establishment of an agency devoted to the planning, development and dissemination of the Malay language and its literature. This agency, The Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, …
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This study aimed to identify the influences on the development and sustainability of education for librarianship and information management. It analysed the factors that contribute to the development of education for librarianship and information management, drawing on theories …
During the final decades of the nineteenth century girls' culture flourished. As recent scholarship has shown, this culture pivoted on an engagement with fiction and particularly the periodical press. Magazines such as the Girl's Own Paper and the Monthly Packet provided spaces …
This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the new facilities of Web of Science (WoS) online can be used in new ways to enhance understanding of scholarly communication. It investigates four aspects of scholarly communication: characteristics of highly cited articles, citation levels…
This thesis examines the problems engendered by ongoing Western dominance in the field of francophone African publishing, with specific reference to Guinea and Senegal. This dominance raises complex issues of power, authority and voice that are familiar tropes in postcolonial an…
“They opened up a whole new world”, or something like it, was a phrase I heard repeatedly when I spoke to women about their memories of magazine reading in the interwar years. How the magazine operated as an imaginative window, a frame, space or mirror for encountering, shaping,…
Demokrasi ortaya çıkışından bugüne dek geçen yaklaşık 2500 yıldan beri yönetim biçimi olarak tartışılan bir kavram olmuştur. Atina sitesinde uygulanmaya başlayan demokrasi, toplumsal yapılarda meydana gelen değişimler sonucunda ilk halinden büyük ölçüde farklılaşsa da kendisini …
The first thing considered in discourse that is focused upon the notion of publishing is paper and that which is utilized to create words upon it, ink. Secondly, the book comes to mind. This research project illuminates the origins of publishing in Sénégal from a socio-cultural …
When Danish composer Per Nørgård discovered the visually arresting sketches of the schizophrenic Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli in 1979, he felt as though his vision of an “ideal world” had been challenged and thus became completely engrossed in the life and works of Wölfli. Nørgård’…
Editors’ contributions to literary creation are too often understated or overlooked. Most of the existing conversation in regards to editors is either purely biographical in nature or else discusses editing as a practice entirely separate from that of authorship. While one must …
This thesis examines the large network of the production of zuan in late-Meiji Kyoto by focusing on one of the zuan artists at the time, Furuya Kōrin. Zuan, which can be translated as pattern or design, was a new subject that emerged in Japan during the last three decades of the…
Kartaca ve Roma arasındaki Batı Akdeniz üzerindeki egemenlik mücadeleleri antik çağın görmüş olduğu en geniş kapsamlı muharebeleri içermektedir. M.Ö 264 yılından itibaren başlayan anlaşmazlıkların kökeninde Batı Akdeniz bölgesinin sunduğu zengin maden yatakları ve ticaret yollar…
The present work is a study of the Japanese publisher Iwanami Shoten, which since its emergence in the mid-1910s has consistently held a unique and defining position in Japanese intellectual culture: it has functioned as a center of much networking among intellectuals, a leading…
This dissertation examines the diversity of Islamic literature in Kazakhstan and interpretations of that literature, focusing on bestselling Islamic books. I argue that the majority of Islamic publishing and book distribution in Kazakhstan is controlled by members of the piety m…