, 2017 In Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century play, Doctor Faustus, the title character is a fabled scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life. He makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
Pickstone, Edwin
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The Unpresentable: Artistic Biblioclasm and the Sublime [PDF]
, 2006 This study investigates the destruction of books carried out by artists during the second half of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century.
Vella, Raphael
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Quema de libros y antitotalitarismo. Manuel Rivas Los libros arden mal y Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 [PDF]
, 2016 El presente artículo se propone comparar dos novelas cuyo común denominador es el compromiso antitotalitario con motivo de la quema de libros considerada como el culmen de la barbarie anticultural, a saber Los libros arden mal (2006) de Manuel Rivas y ...
Mechthild, Albert
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Invisible Library: biblioclasm in the Bosnia and Herzegovina War (1992-1995)
, 2022 Libraries and books have been a constant target of attacks and destruction throughout history, especially in situations of social and cultural tension and armed conflict. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of biblioclasm, strictly understood as the destruction
Andre Vieira de Freitas Araujo (14211009) +1 more
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Invisible Library: biblioclasm in the Bosnia and Herzegovina War (1992-1995)
, 2023 As bibliotecas e os livros têm sido alvos constantes de ataques e de destruições ao longo da história, em especial em situações de tensionamentos sociais e culturais e de conflito armado.
Marques, Diana dos Santos +1 more
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Identidad entre Subjetividad e Información en la Biblioclastia [PDF]
, 2017 The issue of Biblioclasm is clearly ethical, because involves professional responsibility in the management of information. And, as a philosophical issue requires thinking in any categories of situational analysis.
Steinfeld, Guillermo
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Crímenes sublimados: del deseo de la destrucción del “otro”, en el libro [PDF]
, 2016 Could it be that the destruction of a text, an archive, a library, respond at a desire to destroy systematically the thought of an individual or a human group? Even, would it reflect the desire to end that individual or social group?
Steinfeld, Guillermo
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Raiding the Archive: A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels [PDF]
, 2007 The Lindisfarne Gospels (LG), also known as BL MS Cotton Nero D.iv, an eighth-century English Gospel Book, has been revered since its creation for its unique illuminations and its Anglo-Saxon gloss of the Latin gospels.
Welzenbach \u2707, Rebecca
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Teachers’ reactions to the bans and biblioclasm of Mexico’s national free textbooks in 2023: A descriptive qualitative study [PDF]
The rollout of Mexico’s new national free textbooks (LTG) at the outset of the 2023-2024 school year sparked a political crisis. Several states sued to prohibit their distribution and segments of civil society protested that they were designed to ...
Silberberg, Eric +3 more
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La encuadernación del libro en el Perú colonial (1584-1821)
This article explores the history of bookbinding in Peru during the colonial period, from the mid-16th century to the early 19th century. The main objective is to analyze the development of this craft, its technical, aesthetic, social and economic ...
Martha Elena Salvatierra Chuchón +1 more
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