A history of reading /
Manguel, Alberto.
A history of reading / by Alberto Manguel. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking, 1996. - 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-353) and index.
The Last Page --
Reading Shadows --
The Silent Readers --
The Book of Memory --
Learning to Read --
The Missing First Page --
Picture Reading --
Being Read To --
The Shape of the Book --
Private Reading --
Metaphors of Reading --
Beginnings --
Ordainers of the Universe --
Reading the Future --
The Symbolic Reader --
Reading within Walls --
Stealing Books --
The Author as Reader --
The Translator as Reader --
Forbidden Reading --
The Book Fool --
Endpaper Pages TOC
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over.
reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
0670843024 (acidfree paper) 0140166548 9780670843022
96002703
Books and reading--History.
Z1003 / .M292 1996
028.9 / MAH 1996
A history of reading / by Alberto Manguel. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking, 1996. - 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-353) and index.
The Last Page --
Reading Shadows --
The Silent Readers --
The Book of Memory --
Learning to Read --
The Missing First Page --
Picture Reading --
Being Read To --
The Shape of the Book --
Private Reading --
Metaphors of Reading --
Beginnings --
Ordainers of the Universe --
Reading the Future --
The Symbolic Reader --
Reading within Walls --
Stealing Books --
The Author as Reader --
The Translator as Reader --
Forbidden Reading --
The Book Fool --
Endpaper Pages TOC
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over.
reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
0670843024 (acidfree paper) 0140166548 9780670843022
96002703
Books and reading--History.
Z1003 / .M292 1996
028.9 / MAH 1996