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发表于2024-11-08
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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.
一些標點符號和印刷符號的前生今世。但又不僅僅是對這些符號發展曆程的描述,而是涉及多個領域:書籍的抄寫和保存,校勘學的發展,早期教會,齣版印刷史,等等,既有很人文的內容,也有純技術的部分,讀者可以進行多個領域的延伸閱讀。感覺最有意思的是星號和dagger的那章,談瞭很多腳注的發展曆程,後來卻又談到瞭棒球明星Barry Bonds和小布什總統與星號的糾葛。最意外的是@符號,居然來自amphora。讀的2013版,現已又齣新版。
評分因給TIB寫稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完瞭。作者的學術研究涉獵之深與其造詣令人嘆為觀止。
評分一些標點符號和印刷符號的前生今世。但又不僅僅是對這些符號發展曆程的描述,而是涉及多個領域:書籍的抄寫和保存,校勘學的發展,早期教會,齣版印刷史,等等,既有很人文的內容,也有純技術的部分,讀者可以進行多個領域的延伸閱讀。感覺最有意思的是星號和dagger的那章,談瞭很多腳注的發展曆程,後來卻又談到瞭棒球明星Barry Bonds和小布什總統與星號的糾葛。最意外的是@符號,居然來自amphora。讀的2013版,現已又齣新版。
評分因給TIB寫稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完瞭。作者的學術研究涉獵之深與其造詣令人嘆為觀止。
評分因給TIB寫稿而邂逅的神作,竟然在年前啃完瞭。作者的學術研究涉獵之深與其造詣令人嘆為觀止。
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Shady Characters pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024