The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs

Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Herausgeber: Bodel, John; Houston, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation. Essays by leading scholars explore forms of writing that, by their formal intricacy, deflect attention from language. The volume also examines graphs that target meaning directly, without passing through the filter of words and the medium of sound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 203mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840613
• ISBN-10: 1108840612
• Artikelnr.: 59921046

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Hidden Writing: 1. Buried and Camouflaged Writing in Early China
Haicheng Wang; 2. Dazzled and Absorbed: Delayed Reading in Altered Egyptian
Hieroglyphic Writing Andréas Stauder; 3. Impossible Unities: Full-Figure
Glyphs among the Maya Stephen Houston; 4. Inscribe and De-scribe/Cipher and
De-cipher: A Pious Phrase in Medieval Byzantium and Islam Scott Redford; 5.
Script, Pseudoscript, and Pseudo-pseudoscript in the Work of Filippo Lippi
Benjamin C. Tilghman; 6. Numerals as Letters: Ludic Language in
Chronographic Writing Stephen Chrisomalis; Part II. Legible Signs: 7.
Marking and Writing in an Egyptian Workmen's Community Ben Haring; 8. The
Semiotics of Signa and the Significance of Signs in Roman Stamps John
Bodel; 9. Late Antique and Early Medieval Monograms (c. 300-900): From
Producers' Marks to Liminal Graphic Devices Ildar Garipzanov; 10. Crests
and Familial Identity in Medieval Japan David Spafford; 11. Where Credit's
Due: Making Marks and Counting Labor in the Andes Howard Tsai; 12. From
Modeling to Destruction: Cyclicity and Multi-Sensoriality in Learning
Catechisms in the Bolivian Highlands Bérénice Gaillemin.