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Hieroglyphic Modernisms : Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century /
Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other: the Rosetta Stone. The decipherment of the Stone by Jean-François Champollion and the discovery of King Tutankhamun'...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors' Preface
- Introduction: A Hieroglyphic Civilisation
- Part I
- 1 Misreading Egypt
- 2 The Hieroglyphics of Character
- 3 Sound Enclosures
- Part II
- 4 The 'Essence' of Egypt
- 5 Solving the Problem of Babel
- 6 Matrices and Metaverses
- Coda: The Rosetta Stone
- Bibliography
- Index