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Author : Alberto Manguel
Release : 1997
Genre : Books
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Book Rating : 545/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Reading by : Alberto Manguel
Download or read book A History of Reading written by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On history of reading
Author : Alberto Manguel
Release : 2014-08-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Reading by : Alberto Manguel
Download or read book A History of Reading written by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 2014-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for book lovers by a true lover of books! At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader’s progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to digital.
Author : Guglielmo Cavallo
Release : 1999
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Reading in the West by : Guglielmo Cavallo
Download or read book A History of Reading in the West written by Guglielmo Cavallo. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature has not always been written in the same ways, nor has it been received or read in the same ways over the course of Western civilization. Cavallo (Greek palaeography, U. of Rome La Sapienza), Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a number of other international contributors, address themes that highlight the transformation of reading methods and materials over the ages, such as the way texts in the Middle Ages were often written with the voice in mind, as they would have been read aloud, or even sung. Articles explore the innovations in the physical evolution of the book, as well as the growth and development of a broad-based reading public.
Author : Steven R. Fischer
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Reading by : Steven R. Fischer
Download or read book A History of Reading written by Steven R. Fischer. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes in a wonderful diversity of things."-Nature. Now available in paperback, this final volume in the trilogy Language/Writing/Reading traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbols first acquired meaning through to the electronic texts of the digital age.
Author : Abigail Williams
Release : 2017-06-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Social Life of Books by : Abigail Williams
Download or read book The Social Life of Books written by Abigail Williams. This book was released on 2017-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
