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The Violence of the Letter

Melanie McMahon · 2023

78,280 words · about 5 h 29 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · McMahon, Melanie (2023), The Violence of the Letter, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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Author
Melanie McMahon
Language
English
Published
2023
Length
78,280 words · about 5 h 29 min
Sections
11 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (11)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Contents about 9 min
  3. Introduction about 4 h 29 min
  4. Chapter 1 about 3 min
  5. Chapter 2 about 3 min
  6. Chapter 3 about 4 min
  7. Chapter 4 about 5 min
  8. Chapter 5 about 5 min
  9. Chapter 6 about 5 min
  10. Chapter 7 about 25 min
  11. Index about 1 min
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Front matter

MELANIE MCMAHON

Toward a Theory of Writing

Melanie McMahon

Contents

Prelude xi Introduction 1 1. A Brief Technical Detour 10 2. The Trauma of Literacy 24 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction 44 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing 60 5. The Alphabet and Money 81 Interlude 101 6. Letters of Blood and Fire 103 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized 131 Notes 153 Bibliography 181 Index 193

Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following citable URL https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12406894

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