Description: Further DetailsTitle: Inventing the AlphabetCondition: NewSubtitle: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the PresentEAN: 9780226815817ISBN: 9780226815817Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/26/2022Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmAuthor: Johanna DruckerGenre: HistoryTopic: Language & ReferenceRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Inventing the Alphabet
Title: Inventing the Alphabet
Subtitle: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
EAN: 9780226815817
ISBN: 9780226815817
Release Date: 07/26/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Inventing the Alphabet : the Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Historiography, Alphabets & Writing Systems, Social History, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 38 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author: Johanna Drucker
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Hardcover
