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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities

Autor Keith Houston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2015
Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this delightfully entertaining book.

From the pilcrow ¶ to the ampersand, the entire cast ofShady Charactersreflects the changes in written communication through the ages, charting how punctuation has adapted to each new technological innovation. Together, these shady characters form a rich, entertaining and surprising history of the written word and our ongoing attempts to shape it.

'Engaging typographical journeys . . . Houston brings to life a history of ingenuity and imagination'The Times

'Entertaining, informative, a must-read. If ever a book deserved its hardbacked, reverse-embossed, lavishly illustrated, thick white heavy paper incarnation, and a place on an actual bookshelf, it isShady Characters'Guardian

'Houston brings considerable wit to the 5,000-year-old enigma of how we attempt to communicate our thoughts through visible signs. . . Shady Charactersmight make you look at books - in print or online - in an entirely new way'Nature

'Refreshing . . . the stories he uncovers along the way are fascinating'Telegraph

'Ventures into the previously untrodden history of punctuation marks . . . scholarly, highly readable'Spectator

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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ISBN-13: 9780718193881
ISBN-10: 0718193881
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Keith Houston started writing about the stories behind different marks of punctuation back in 2008 and soon discovered that they wove a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. He is the founder of ShadyCharacters.co.uk where he brings these typographic raconteurs into the light of day.