Index, A History of the
Autor Dennis Duncanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 sep 2021
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might findButchers, to be avoided, orCows that sh-te Fire, or even catchCalvin in his chamberwithaNonne. This is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told.
Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and - of course - indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we have been for eight hundred years.
Preț: 110.68 lei
Preț vechi: 138.18 lei
-28%
Puncte Express: 166
Preț estimativ în valută:
21.20€ • 22.97$ • 18.18£
21.20€ • 22.97$ • 18.18£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241374238
ISBN-10: 0241374235
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241374235
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Dennis
Duncanis
a
writer,
translator,
lecturer
in
English
at
University
College
London,
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Historical
Society.
He
has
published
numerous
academic
books,
includingBook
PartsandThe
Oulipo
and
Modern
Thought,
as
well
as
translations
of
Michel
Foucault,
Boris
Vian,
and
Alfred
Jarry.
His
writing
has
appeared
in
theGuardian,
theTimes
Literary
Supplement,
and
theLondon
Review
of
Books,
and
recent
articles
have
considered
Mallarmé
and
jugs,
James
Joyce
and
pornography,
and
the
history
of
Times
New
Roman.
Recenzii
What
a
surprise
to
discover
that
the
plain
and
humble
index
has
such
an
intricate
and
rollicking
history!
Dennis
Duncan
gives
us
a
learned
grand
tour
from
ancient
times
to
the
almost
present
in
the
design
and
uses
-
and
cunning
abuses
-
of
what
is
still
the
most
sophisticated
search
tool
ever
devised.
Instruction,passim!
Entertainment,idem!
Dennis Duncan has done a great service to all bibliophiles by writing this scholarly, witty and affectionate history. By rights "Books, love of" ought to have a page-long entry in the index.
Entrancing ... Seldom is a short book so wide-ranging or so original in its subject. Every page has things I didn't know, or hardly realised I knew from a lifetime of looking things up. I want to stop people at random and tell them new facts I've found out. Master the use of the index and you have access to all knowledge.
Dennis Duncan has done a great service to all bibliophiles by writing this scholarly, witty and affectionate history. By rights "Books, love of" ought to have a page-long entry in the index.
Entrancing ... Seldom is a short book so wide-ranging or so original in its subject. Every page has things I didn't know, or hardly realised I knew from a lifetime of looking things up. I want to stop people at random and tell them new facts I've found out. Master the use of the index and you have access to all knowledge.