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Encyclopedism from Pliny to Borges /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnar, Anna Sigrídur
Corporate Author: University of Chicago. Library
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Library, 1990.
Subjects:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries > History and criticism > Exhibitions.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires > Histoire et critique > Expositions.
Savoir et érudition > Histoire > Expositions.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires > Histoire et critique > Catalogues d'exposition.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Summa
  • THe catalogue form
  • The encyclopedic dictionary
  • The conversation as didactic method
  • The fragment : knowledge mobilized
  • The illustrated encyclopedia : knowledge sensualized
  • The Encyclopédie reconsidered : new markets, new formats, new encyclopedias
  • The three-dimensional encyclopedia : the library, the Wunderkammer, the museum
  • Encyclopedic narratives
  • The critique of encyclopedism.