Bibliophobia : The End and the Beginning of the Book

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Bibliophobia The End and the Beginning of the Book
verantwortlich
Cummings, Brian (VerfasserIn)
veröffentlicht
Oxford: Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022
©2022
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Teil von
Clarendon Lectures in English Ser.
Erscheint auch als
Cummings, Brian, Bibliophobia, First edition, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022, xxi, 562 Seiten
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Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing and of books to give readers a fascinating account of why books matter and how they impact on our lives.
Cover -- BIBLIOPHOBIA: The End and the Beginning of the Book -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- Note On Texts -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- I: DEATH OF THE BOOK -- 1: Is There a Future for the Book? -- 2: The Library as Computer -- 3: The Message of Ashurbanipal from Antiquity -- 4: Living in the Tower of Babel -- II: BOOKS AND VIOLENCE -- 5: The Book- Fires of 1933 -- 6: The Making and Unmaking of Libraries -- 7: Incombustible Heresy in the Age of Luther -- 8: The Bondage of the Book -- III: SACRED TEXT -- 9: The Mystery of Arabic Script -- 10: The Unnameable Hebrew God -- 11: How the Alphabet Came to Greece from Africa -- 12: The Characters of Chinese -- IV: THE CULT OF THE BOOK -- 13: Words and Images -- 14: Kissing the Book -- 15: Books Under the Razor -- 16: Shakespeare and Bibliofetishism -- V: THE BODY AND THE BOOK -- 17: The Book Incarnate -- 18: The Hand in the History of the Book -- 19: Written on the Flesh -- 20: Book Burial -- VI: GHOST IN THE BOOK -- 21: The Book After the French Revolution -- 22: The Smartphone Inside Our Heads -- 23: Heresy and Modernity -- 24: Glyph -- Endnotes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index.
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1 Online-Ressource (591 seiten)
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
RVK-Notation
  • Allgemeines
    • Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft
      • Buchwesen
        • Buch und Leser
          • Buchkritik
DDC-Notation
002.09
ISBN
9780192663085