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crl-15374	Garrett, Jeffrey	Rota, Anthony. Apart from the Text. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Pr., 1998. 234p. $35 (ISBN 1-884718-52-3). LC 99-177769.	2000	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1997	78	51	All of this discourse, from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum, amounts to a late vindication for the “materialists” of book culture, those book historians and artifactualists who have raised a moun­ tain of scholarship to explain how and why books have become precisely what they are today, and to provide students of the book and of book history with the means to describe exactly what they en­ counter when a book is carefully, “ana­ lytically” examined. In the wake of Derridan deconstructionism and especially Gérard Genette’s discov­ ery of “paratexts” (e.g. titles, dust-jacket blurbs, etc.), humanists, too, are seizing with new vigor upon the physicality of books, their various nontextual qualities that serve as coconstituents of meaning in “the complex mediation between book, author, publisher, and reader.”	cache/crl-15374.pdf	txt/crl-15374.txt