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Bibliophobia: the end and the beginning of the book
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0192847317 (hardcover)
9780192847317 (hardcover)
Author
Cummings, Brian
Title
Bibliophobia : the end and the beginning of the book / Brian Cummings
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
Physical desc.
xxi, 562 pages, 4 pages of plates ; illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
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Clarendon lectures in English
Note
CB illustrations: page 137, figure 25 (Is 1431); plate 2 (Is 1457.1, f. 1r).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-525) and indexes.
Contents
Part 1: 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: Sacred text. The mystery of Arabic script -- The unnameable Hebrew God -- How the alphabet came to Greece from Africa -- The characters of Chinese -- Part 4: The cult of the book. Words and images -- Kissing the book -- Books under the razor -- Shakespeare and bibliofetishism -- Part 5: The body and the book. The book incarnate -- The hand in the history of the book -- Written on the flesh -- Book burial -- Part 6: Ghost in the book. The book after the French Revolution -- The smartphone inside our heads -- Heresy and modernity -- Glyph.
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Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1457
Books -- History
Books and reading -- History
Bibliomania
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