The Tyranny of Writing

preview-18
  • The Tyranny of Writing Book Detail

  • Author : Constanze Weth
  • Release Date : 2018-01-25
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 240
  • ISBN 13 : 1474292445
  • File Size : 36,36 MB

The Tyranny of Writing by Constanze Weth PDF Summary

Book Description: This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been and are being invested in promoting literacy worldwide. So what could possibly be tyrannical about writing? The title is inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's argument against writing as an object of linguistic research and what he called la tyrannie de la lettre. His critique denounced writing as an imperfect, distorted image of speech that obscures our view of language and its structure. The chapters of the book, written by experts in language and literacy studies, go beyond this and explore tyrannical aspects of writing in society through history and around the world: from Medieval Novgorod, the European Renaissance and 19th-century France and Germany over colonial Sudan to postcolonial Sri Lanka and Senegal and present-day Hong Kong and Central China to the Netherlands and Spain. The metaphor of 'tyranny of writing' serves as a heuristic for exploring ideologies of language and literacy in culture and society and tensions and contradictions between the written and the spoken word.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Tyranny of Writing books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Tyranny of Writing

The Tyranny of Writing

File Size : 7,7 MB
Total View : 2493 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the

The Tyranny of Writing

The Tyranny of Writing

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 9651 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the

Tyranny of Writing

Tyranny of Writing

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 5288 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the

Writing Under Tyranny

Writing Under Tyranny

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 7593 Views
DOWNLOAD

Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.

The Tyranny of Merit

The Tyranny of Merit

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 5675 Views
DOWNLOAD

A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020 A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020 A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020 A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 20