White Magic by Müller, Lothar -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Title page Copyright page Thanks PROLOGUE: The Microbe Experiment

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PART ONE: The Diffusion of Paper in Europe

1: Leaves from Samarkand

1.1. The Arab Intermediate Realm 1.2. Calligraphy and the Cairo Wastepaper Basket 1.3. In Scheherazade's World 1.4. Timur and Suleika Notes

2: The Rustling Grows Louder

2.1. The European Paper Mill Boom 2.2. Paper, Scholars, and Playing Cards 2.3. The Rise of the File: Paper Kings, Chanceries, and Secretaries 2.4. The Merchant of Genoa and His Silent Partner 2.5. Ragpickers, Writers, and the Pulpit Notes

3: The Universal Substance

3.1. Marshall McLuhan and the Pantagruelion of Rabelais 3.2. Harold Innis, the Postal System, and Mephisto's Scrap 3.3. The World in a Page: Watermarks, Formats, Colors Notes

PART TWO: Behind the Type Area

1: The Printed and the Unprinted

1.1. The Pitfalls of a Formula: “From Script to Print” 1.2. The White Page 1.3. “Found among the Papers …” Notes

2: Adventurers and Paper

2.1. Don Quixote, the Print Shop, and the Pen 2.2. Picaresque Paper: Simplicius Simplicissimus and the Schermesser 2.3. Robinson's Journal, Ink, and Time Notes

3: Transparent Typography

PART THREE: The Great Expansion

1: The Demons of the Paper Machine

2: Newsprint and the Emergence of the Popular Press

2.1. The Boundless Resource Base 2.2. The Newspaper, the Price of Paper, and the Patrioteer 2.3. Émile Zola, the Petit Journal, and the Dreyfus Affair Notes

3: Illuminated Inner Worlds

3.1. Wilhelm Dilthey, Historism, and Literary Estates 3.2. Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the Autograph Hunt 3.3. Laterna Magica: Paper and Interiors Notes

4: The Inventory of Modernity

4.1. Typewriter Paper, Deckle Edges, and White Space 4.2. James Joyce, Newsprint, and Shears 4.3. William Gaddis, the Paperwork Crisis, and Punch Cards 4.4. Rainald Goetz, the Mystic Writing Pad, and the Smell of Paper Notes

EPILOGUE: The Analog and the Digital

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