Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

by Johanna Drucker

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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies . Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226815811

ISBN13:9780226815817

Release Date:July 2022

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:2.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.0" x 9.6"

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History Language Arts

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