Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

372 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm. Originalhalbleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; OUmschl. stw. gering berieben. - Englisch. - ... Alberto Manguel proves a hungry, agile reader, always impressionable,- and he fans out before us an arresting array of emblematic episodes, silent epiphanies and apt encounters, drawn from times and cultures near and far. The materials, the symbols, the influences, the treasures, the contexts of the Book are all weighed and measured. Manguel's index throngs like the Inquisition's Index of Forbidden Books: here stack the Book of Hours, hymnbooks, Bibles, the invention of printing, the library at Alexandria, the Aldine press, WH Smith, Penguins, cuneiform, codex, the Book Thief of Paris, and the Great Camel Library of the Grand Vizier of Persia. From Pliny the Younger and the first lip-synch in history and the ancient Greeks' reading clubs via Tyndale translating the Bible into English and coining the words peacemaker' and 'beautiful' for the occasion to Pinochet banning Cervantes in a plea for individual freedom' and the hypnotics of hypertext, the rich uses and abuses of reading are catalogued for our pleasure. ... (Verlagstext) / INHALT : THE LAST PAGE ---- The Last Page ---- ACTS OF R E A D N G ---- 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 ---- ENDPAPER PAGES ---- Endpaper Pages ---- NOTES ---- INDEX. ISBN 0002550067