Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary

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  • Author : G. Partington
  • Release Date : 2014-09-09
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 208
  • ISBN 13 : 1137367660
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary by G. Partington PDF Summary

Book Description: This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.

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