This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: G. Partington
EAN: 9781137367655
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3943 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-09-12
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Heike Bauer, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Ross Birrell, Glasgow School of Arts, Scotland Stephen Colclough, Bangor University, Wales Nicola Dale, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Kate Flint, University of Southern California, USA Tom Philips, artist, UK Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford, UK Heather Tilley, independent scholar, UK
