TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drucker Johanna
TI  - The alphabetic labyrinth: the letters in history and imagination. / 
SN  - 0500280681
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames and Hudson Ltd
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - history
KW  - Writing
N1  - [The alphabet in context. Origins and historians. The alphabet in classical history, philosophy and divination. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-platonism and Neo-pythagoreanism: the alphabet in Hellenistic and Early Christian era. Calligraphy, alchemy and ars combinatoria in the medieval period. The Kabbalah. Rationalizing the alphabet: construction, real character and philosophical languages in the Renaissance. The social contract, primitivism and nationalism: the alphabet in the 18th century. The alphabet in the 19th century: advertising, visible speech and narratives of history. 20th century: eclecticism, technology and the idiosyncratic imagination]; Notes - p.: 309-311; Biblio. - p.: 312-315; Index - p.: 316-320
ER  -