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Approaches to the History of Written Culture

A World Inscribed - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
272 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am03.08.2018Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. From the inscribed images of pre-literate´ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined.mehr
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KlappentextThis book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. From the inscribed images of pre-literate´ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private uses are examined.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-85328-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum03.08.2018
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
ReiheNew Directions in Book History
Seiten272 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht374 g
IllustrationenIX, 272 p. 14 illus.
Artikel-Nr.46144315

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. A World Inscribed - Introduction.- 2. The Babylonian Scribes and their Libraries.- 3. Writings in the Korean Han´gÅ­l Script by and for the Women of ChosÅn Korea.- 4. Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-modern Age.- 5. Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World.- 6. Writing One´s Life: The French School of the Anthropology of Writing.- 7. Calendar, Chronicle and Songs of Sorrows: Generic Sources of Life Writing in Nineteenth-Century Finland.- 8. Reading the Cheyenne Letter´: Towards a Typology of Inscription Beyond the Alphabet.- 9. The Scribal Culture of Children: A Fragmentary History.- 10.  Policing Writing in the City, 1852-1945: The Invention of Scriptural Delinquency.- 11. QWERTYUIOP: How the Typewriter Influenced Writing Practices.- 12.  The Future of the History of Writing.- Bibliography.- Index.mehr

Autor

Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published many books and articles on the history of reading and writing in Europe and Australia including A History of Reading & Writing in the Western World (Palgrave, 2010) and The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-c.1920 (2013). He has previously published 4 titles with Palgrave Macmillan.

Rita Marquilhas is Associate Professor in General & Romance Linguistics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and chief investigator on the 'Postscriptum Project - A Digital Archive of Ordinary Writingsin Early Modern Portugal and Spain'. She is the author of several articles on the social history of language.
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