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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manus
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- Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manus
- ISBN
- 9781324002543
- Book Title
- Index, a History of the : a Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Référence, History
- Topic
- Bibliographies & Indexes, Social History, Europe / General, United States / General, Books & Reading
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 18.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and--of course--indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart--and we have been for eight hundred years.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324002549
ISBN-13
9781324002543
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10050097268
Product Key Features
Book Title
Index, a History of the : a Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Bibliographies & Indexes, Social History, Europe / General, United States / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Literary Criticism, Référence, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Z695.9d86 2022
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Enlightening and entertaining...Duncan mixes humor and scholarship to brilliant effect in this accessible deep dive., Dennis Duncan's history--from Socrates to software--along with Paula Clarke Bain's peerless index, is witty and personable throughout, and also serves as a sneak attack on the search engine. It's safe to say that you will never take an index for granted again., Smart, playful....Duncan has written such a generous book, attentive to the varieties of the reading experience., A decidedly fun history...Dennis Duncan's enthusiasm for the subject matter shines through the many witticisms and illustrations as he shows how something so seemingly small has been so vital to western literature., Duncan proves an amiable companion on what his subtitle aptly refers to as a 'bookish adventure'...[U]seful as an introduction to book history in general as well as indexes in particular., A seemingly niche and esoteric subject, the index becomes, in Duncan's hands, a minor miracle. Index, A History of the is not only about books...but about the nature of reading and about how we understand, categorize and engage with the world., Dennis Duncan has done a great service to all bibliophiles by writing this scholarly, witty, and affectionate history. By rights 'Books, love of' ought to have a page-long entry in the index., Masterful...[B]oth an entertaining and edifying journey through index-history and a spirited defense of the index (and indexers) in the technological age., What a surprise to discover that the plain and humble index has such an intricate and rollicking history! Dennis Duncan gives us a learned grand tour from ancient times to the almost present in the design and uses--and cunning abuses--of what is still the most sophisticated search tool ever devised. Instruction, passim! Entertainment, idem!, [A] witty and wide-ranging study...[Duncan] is adventurous as well, often writing as if academic research were as revved-up as a Formula One race., Engaging...Duncan draws rich parallels to anxieties surrounding our own 'age of search' and makes an impassioned case for the continued relevance of the human-crafted index., [A] witty and wide-ranging study...[Duncan] is adventurous as well, often writing as if academic research were as revved-up as a Formula One race.--Peter Conrad, The Guardian A seemingly niche and esoteric subject, the index becomes, in Duncan's hands, a minor miracle.--Kate Wiles, History Today Dennis Duncan has done a great service to all bibliophiles by writing this scholarly, witty, and affectionate history. By rights ' Books, love of ' ought to have a page-long entry in the index.--Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves What a surprise to discover that the plain and humble index has such an intricate and rollicking history! Dennis Duncan gives us a learned grand tour from ancient times to the almost present in the design and uses--and cunning abuses--of what is still the most sophisticated search tool ever devised. Instruction, passim ! Entertainment, idem !--David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish In Your Ear? Entrancing...Every page has things I didn't know, or hardly realized I knew from a lifetime of looking things up. Master the use of the index and you have access to all knowledge.--Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, Entertaining and erudite...In an unexpectedly high-spirited book on indexes, the fun continues to the very last page., An adventure, and 'bookish' in the most appealing sense...From ancient Egypt to Silicon Valley, Duncan is an ideal tour guide: witty, engaging, knowledgeable and a fount of diverting anecdotes., Sparkles with geeky wit and shines with an infectious enthusiasm...Always erudite, frequently funny, and often surprising--a treat for lovers of the book qua book., As Dennis Duncan's charming book shows, though today they suggest fusty libraries, indexes were once a novelty., Dennis Duncan gives us not only a history of the index, but an essay on human folly...[A] terrifically rewarding and also timely book., Entrancing.... Every page has things I didn't know, or hardly realized I knew from a lifetime of looking things up. Master the use of the index and you have access to all knowledge.", Backmatter Has Never Enjoyed Such a Spotlight; Sure to Amuse Bibliophiles and Casual Readers Alike., Dennis Duncan's Fascinating Study of the Origins of the Index Offers Subversion, Whimsy--And Hope., A learned and playful study, by British academic Dennis Duncan, of a textual machinery so successful it's become almost invisible., Erudite, eminently readable and wittily titled...[U]shers the reader smoothly, even soothingly, along a fascinating, immensely pleasurable journey through previously uncharted terrain.
Lccn
2021-050496
Dewey Decimal
001.012
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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