Hieroglyphic Modernisms : : Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century / / Jesse Schotter.
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’s tom...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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