Bibliophobia
The End and the Beginning of the Book
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It traces a twin fear of omniscience and oblivion back to the origins of writing in ancient Babylon and Egypt, then forwards to the age of Google. It uncovers bibliophobia from the first Chinese emperor to Nazi Germany, alongside parallel stories of bibliomania and bibliolatry in world religions and literatures. Books imply cognitive content embodied in physical form, in which the body cooperates with the brain. At its heart this relationship of body and mind, or letter and spirit, always retains a mystery. Religions are founded on holy books, which are also sites of transgression, so that writing is simultaneously sacred and profane. In secular societies these complex feelings are transferred to concepts of ideology and toleration. In the ambiguous future of the internet, digital immateriality threatens human equilibrium once again.Bibliophobia is a global history, covering six continents and seven religions, describing written examples from each of the last thirty centuries (and several earlier). It discusses topics such as the origins of different kinds of human script; the development of textual media such as scrolls, codices, printed books, and artificial intelligence; the collection and destruction of libraries; the use of books as holy relics, talismans, or shrines; and the place of literacy in the history of slavery, heresy, blasphemy, censorship, and persecution. It proposes a theory of writing, how it relates to speech, images, and information, or to concepts of mimesis, personhood, and politics. Originating as the Clarendon Lectures in the Faculty of English at the
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University of Oxford, the methods of Bibliophobia range across book history; comparative religion; philosophy from Plato to Hegel and Freud; and a range of global literature from ancient to contemporary. Richly illustrated with textual forms, material objects, and art works, its inspiration is the power that books always (and continue to) have in the emotional, spiritual, bodily, and imaginative lives of readers.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Bibliophobia “
- Preface
- Note on Texts
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Brian Cummings
Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor at the University of York. Before arriving at York, he was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and then Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He has held visiting fellowships at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich; the University of Toronto; and the Folger Library in Washington D.C. In 2012, he gave the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University; in 2013, the Margaret Mann Phillips Plenary Lecture at the Renaissance Society of America; he has also given the British Academy annual Shakespeare Lecture and the Shakespeare Birthday Lecture in Washington D.C. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Brian Cummings
- 2022, 592 Seiten, 4 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 24,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192847317
- ISBN-13: 9780192847317
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
As a book historian, I felt dazzled...It is full of treasures and sparkling insights...be prepared to be led through a rich gallery of intriguing scenarios at a cracking pace. I advise taking a deep breath before diving in. Martyn Lyons, Modern Philology
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