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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks - Couverture souple

Houston, Keith

 
9780393349726: Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0393349721 ISBN 13 : 9780393349726
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics highly recommended. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings"

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith Houston is the author of Face with Tears of Joy, Empire of the Sum, Shady Characters, and The Book. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and on Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and Literary Hub. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics highly recommended. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings"

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ( ) which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic () and everyday (&). From the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs, figures as diverse as Charlemagne, Vladimir Nabokov, and George W. Bush cross paths with marks as obscure as the interrobang (?) and as divisive as the dash (). Ancient Roman graffiti, Venetian trading shorthand, Cold War double agents, and Madison Avenue round out an ever more diverse set of episodes, characters, and artifacts. Richly illustrated, ranging across time, typographies, and countries, Shady Characters will delight and entertain all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.

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Éditeur
W. W. Norton & Company
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393349721
ISBN 13 
9780393349726
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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