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Book

A history of reading

Call Number

  • P 418.4 M2777 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York [New York] ; Toronto : Penguin Books, 1997.

Physical Description

372 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm

Summary

A wide-ranging and erudite exploration of the topic of reading.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Viking, 1996.

Contents

  • 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
  • Powers of the reader
  • 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.

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