Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The idea of the library in the ancient world / Yun Lee Too. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : New York : 2010.; Oxford University Press, (c)2010.Description: 265 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199577804
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Z722.T668.T669 2010
  • Z722
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Contents:
Origins : the diachronic perspective. The birth of a library ; Library catalogues : from literary description to literary self-description -- Forms of the library. The breathing library : performing cultural memories ; The library (as) book : the fantasy of the total text ; The library of universal history : Diodorus Siculus and literary cosmopolitanism -- Memories. Inside and outside the library : the memory of canon -- Physicalities. Picture libraries : statues among the books ; The sociality of the ancient library.
Review: "In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject until now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer."--Jacket.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction Z722.T66 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923001862792

Introduction : the idea of the library -- Origins : the diachronic perspective. The birth of a library ; Library catalogues : from literary description to literary self-description -- Forms of the library. The breathing library : performing cultural memories ; The library (as) book : the fantasy of the total text ; The library of universal history : Diodorus Siculus and literary cosmopolitanism -- Memories. Inside and outside the library : the memory of canon -- Physicalities. Picture libraries : statues among the books ; The sociality of the ancient library.

"In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject until now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions are numerous: as an instrument of power, of memory, of which it has various modes; as an articulation of a political ideal, an art gallery, a place for sociality. Too indirectly raises important conceptual questions about the contemporary library, bringing to these the insights that a study of antiquity can offer."--Jacket.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.