Monday, 11 June 2018

Early Modern Memes: The Reuse and Recycling of Woodcuts in 17th-Century English Popular Print

quote [ Expensive and laborious to produce, a single woodcut could be recycled to illustrate hundreds of different ballads, each new home imbuing the same image with often wildly diverse meanings. Katie Sisneros explores this interplay of repetition, context, and meaning, and how in it can be seen a parallel with the meme culture of today. ]

Without memes, I will die
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[by ScoobySnacks@5:27pmGMT]

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