The golden thread : the story of writing

• Tác giả: Ewan Clayton
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1619022423
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 302.224409 Communication
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: 407 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 153833
• Chủ đề: 1. Literacy; 2. Writing--Social aspects; 3. Writing--History; 4. Writing materials and instruments; 5. Written communication--Social aspects; 6. Written communication--History

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-391) and index.

Tóm tắt

 From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and animals in ancient Egypt, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century computer user, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Ewan Clayton marks each step in the historical development of writing, and explores the social and cultural impact of every stage: the invention of the alphabet
  the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period
  the perfecting of printing using movable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy
  the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution
  the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century, and of the digital switchover at the century's close.