Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history.Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet's origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography.This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been "invented" as an object of scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-26
Mått178 x 254 x 27 mm
Vikt1 070 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226815817

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Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and a distinguished professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon, and Getty Fellowships and in 2019 was the inaugural Distinguished Senior Humanities Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. Her artist books are included in museums and libraries in North America and Europe, and her creative work was the subject of a traveling retrospective, Druckworks 1972-2012: 40 Years of Books and Projects. Her publications include Visualizing Interpretation, Iliazd: Meta-biography of a Modernist, and The Digital Humanities Coursebook.

Introduction1. When Did the Alphabet Become "Greek"?2. Divine Gifts: Original Letters, Moses, and the Tablets at Mount Sinai3. Medieval Copyists: Magical Letters, Mythic Scripts, and Exotic Alphabets4. The Confusion of Tongues and Compendia of Scripts5. Antiquity Explained: The Origin and Progress of Letters6. The Rhetoric of Tables and the Harmony of Alphabets7. Modern Archaeology: Putting the Evidence of the Alphabet in Place8. Reading the Early Alphabet: Epigraphy and Paleography9. Alphabet Effects and the Politics of ScriptCoda: Alphabetic Agency and Global HegemonyNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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