A history of reading / by Alberto Manguel.

By: Manguel, Alberto Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Viking, 1996. Edition: 1st American edDescription: 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0670843024 (acidfree paper); 0140166548; 9780670843022Subject(s): Books and reading -- HistoryDDC classification: 028.9 LOC classification: Z1003 | .M292 1996Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC 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

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	028.9 MAH 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		25832

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-353) and index.

TOC 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

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.

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Tahur Ahmed

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