Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0199207178 ISBN 13: 9780199207176
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: OUP Oxford 23/08/2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198803923 ISBN 13: 9780198803928
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Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199645205 ISBN 13: 9780199645206
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine.
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Verlag: Oxford University Press Mai 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192847317 ISBN 13: 9780192847317
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 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.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 0198724470 ISBN 13: 9780198724476
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013
ISBN 10: 0199677719 ISBN 13: 9780199677719
Anbieter: Any Amount of Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
8vo. Pp: xv, 367. First edition, third impression. Original publisher's illustrated black and green dust jacket with white lettering, white lettering to spine. Publisher's navy boards with gilt lettering to spine.ISBN: 9780199677719 There is a small mark to fore edge of book, else very good in very good dust jacket.
Verlag: OUP, 2013
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
1st Ed., 1st Imp. [xvi] + 367pp. + [i]. 25 ills. Very good in d/w. US$49.
Verlag: OUP 2010 (1st impr). xii, 689pp; f/p, 5 illus. 2010, 2010
Anbieter: Bennett and Kerr Books, ABINGDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Oxford University Press Dez 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0198831188 ISBN 13: 9780198831181
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing, life drawing, and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.
Verlag: Routledge Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1138245879 ISBN 13: 9781138245877
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion, and in the process suggests both new models of the self and new models for interactive and inter-disciplinary history.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press Nov 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 1108829996 ISBN 13: 9781108829991
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1472413644 ISBN 13: 9781472413642
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Framed within a wide range of ideas, including politics and religion, this volume makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the passions. It explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between a cognitive and bodily approach to emotion, and in the process suggests both new models of the self and new models for interactive and inter-disciplinary history.
Verlag: Routledge Jul 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 0367150751 ISBN 13: 9780367150754
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Aug 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199212481 ISBN 13: 9780199212484
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the medieval and the early modern. Cultural Reformations, part of the Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature series, initiates discussion on many fronts in which both periods look different in dialogue with each other.