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Bibliophobia : the end and the beginning of the book / Brian Cummings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, Brian, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon lectures in English.
- Clarendon lectures in English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--History.
- Books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (591 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- This volume is illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works. It tells a 5000-year history of writing and books, giving readers an account of why books matter and how they impact our lives.
- Contents:
- Death of the book. Is there a future for the book?
- The library as computer
- The message of Ashurbanipal from antiquity
- Living in the Tower of Babel
- Books and violence. The book-fires of 1933
- The making and unmaking of libraries
- Incombustible heresy in the age of Luther
- The bondage of the book
- Sacred text. The mystery of Arabic script
- The unnameable Hebrew God
- How the alphabet came to Greece from Africa
- The characters of Chinese
- The cult of the book. Words and images
- Kissing the book
- Books under the razor
- Shakespeare and bibliofetishism
- The body and the book. The book incarnate
- The hand in the history of the book
- Written on the flesh
- Book burial
- Ghost in the book. The book after the French Revolution
- The smartphone inside our heads
- Heresy and modernity
- Glyph.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cummings, Brian Bibliophobia
- ISBN:
- 0-19-266309-7
- 0-19-193972-2
- 0-19-266308-9
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