礼物与书籍： 从早期神话到现在 英文原版 Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present

基本信息

出版社 ? : ? Bodleian Library (2023年 8月 11日)

出版日期 ? : ? 2023年 8月 11日

语言 ? : ? 英语

精装 ? : ? 171页

ISBN-10 ? : ? 185124610X

ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-1851246106

尺寸 ? : ? 23.5 x 2.79 x 26.04 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

关于书籍作为礼物的本质的一系列发人深省的文章。

送礼和收礼都很棘手。礼物可能令人感动，也可能令人费解，可能加强友谊的纽带，也可能成为负担。这本书不仅探讨了几个世纪以来书籍和文字是如何描述礼物赠送的，还探讨了书籍本身是如何成为珍贵礼物的。在一系列发人深省的文章中，撰稿人从博德利安图书馆的藏书和其他藏书中选取了丰富的插图，阐明了写作与赠送、接受和回报这些基本冲动相互作用的一些引人注目的方式。

每一章都从考古学、宗教学、历史学、文学和人类学等特定角度出发。从记录神庙创建的古代苏美尔石碑，到彰显交换与继承的乐趣和令人不安的历史的当代儿童文学作品，礼物的动力跨越时空。本书收录了华美的中世纪手稿、伊丽莎白一世女王制作和赠送的礼物、维多利亚时代的圣诞故事以及神秘的苏格兰书籍雕塑。这些书籍和物品中交织着关于牺牲、爱情、忠诚和友谊的故事，展示了礼物在塑造我们自己的故事方面的持续力量。

A series of thought-provoking essays about the nature of the book as a gift.

Giving and receiving gifts can be tricky. Gifts may be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. This volume explores how books and writing have described gift-giving over the centuries, but also how books became precious gifts themselves. In a series of thought-provoking essays, richly illustrated from the Bodleian Library’s collections and beyond, the contributors illuminate some of the striking ways in which writing interacts with those fundamental impulses to give, receive, and reciprocate.

Each chapter draws on a particular perspective, including archaeology, religion, history, literature, and anthropology. From an ancient Sumerian tablet recording the founding of a temple to contemporary children’s literature that highlights the pleasures and troubling histories of exchange and inheritance, the dynamics of the gift are at work across space and time. This book features gorgeous medieval manuscripts, gifts made by and for Queen Elizabeth I, Victorian Christmas tales, and a mysterious Scottish book sculpture. Stories of sacrifice, love, loyalty, and friendship are woven into these books and objects, showing the ongoing power of the gift to shape the stories we tell about ourselves.