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" The alphabetic labyrinth : "
Johanna Drucker.
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BL
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878541
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| Main Entry
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Drucker, Johanna,1952-
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The alphabetic labyrinth : : the letters in history and imagination /\ Johanna Drucker.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, New York :: Thames and Hudson,, 1995.
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320 pages :: illustrations, facsimiles ;; 27 cm
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0500016089
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: 9780500016084
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| Notes
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"Printed and bound in Slovenia"--Title page verso.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-315) and index.
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| Contents
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I. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century -- IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.
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| Abstract
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A colorful and thorough exploration of the history of the alphabet and its symbolism in a mystical, philosophical, social, and artistic context.
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Alphabet-- History.
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Alphabets.
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Alphabets.
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Alphabet.
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Alphabets.
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| Dewey Classification
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411
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| LC Classification
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P211.D75 1995
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P211.D7824 1995
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q411 D794a
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