Keith Houston

Shady Characters (eBook, ePUB)

Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Keith Houston's entertaining book, inspired by his popular blog shadycharacters.co.uk, tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical marks and reveals a fascinating history of writing.

Every character we write or type is a link to the past, and in today's printed, electronic and scrawled writing their history stares right back at us. This book charts the lives of some of the most intriguing examples, like how the pilcrow went from its noble origins in ancient Greece to near obsolescence, only to be revived again in word processing software. Each character reflects the bust and boom endured by punctuation with each new technological innovation and together they form a rich history of written communication.

Keith Houston is the founder of ShadyCharacters.co.uk, where he writes about the unusual stories behind some well-known - and some rather more outlandish - marks of punctuation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846146480
• Artikelnr.: 39682996

Autorenporträt

Keith Houston is the author of Empire of the Sum, Shady Characters, and The Book. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Mental Floss, and on BBC Culture and Literary Hub. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland.