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发表于2024-11-23
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From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation.
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.
Keith Houston is the creator of the Shady Characters blog. He and his wife live in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
评分因给TIB写稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完了。作者的学术研究涉猎之深与其造诣令人叹为观止。
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Shady Characters pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024