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Author Pyne, Lydia, author

Title Bookshelf / Lydia Pyne
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Series Object Lessons
Object lessons.
Contents From medieval to modern: bookshelves in chains -- The things that go on a bookshelf -- Bookshelves that move -- Bookshelves as signs and symbols -- The life cycle of a bookshelf
Summary "Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You might think that its name says it all. A bookshelf is just that - a shelf for books. It's the stuff of libraries, offices, and the bane of movers' existence. But every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Bookshelf takes an almost meta-approach to the object studies aim of Object Lessons: exploring the stacks as well as our bedside tables, writer and historian Lydia Pyne unpacks not just the material parts but the secret lives of bookshelves. Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of bookshelf in full bloom?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher
"Shows that, whether in the library, office, or home, the bookshelf is where and how we create categories to sort knowledge and experience and that every bookshelf tells a different story"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shelving for books.
Libraries.
Books.
Shelving (Furniture)
Libraries
Books
libraries (buildings)
books.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Media studies.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Books
Libraries
Shelving for books
Shelving (Furniture)
Form Electronic book
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