Reading the Streets: Encounters With the Public Graphosphere, C. 1700-1950

Autor: Franklin, Simon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Popis: The history of reading in Russia is mainly considered in relation to books, journals and newspapers, or, latterly, electronic media. Rather little attention has been paid to a very different kind of text, in a very different kind of communicative context. By the late nineteenth century, as Jeffrey Brooks has noted: The city with its shop signs and street names, window displays and price tags, newspapers and kiosks, announcements and bookstalls exhibited the written word to all who walked its ...
Databáze: OpenAIRE