A history of reading / Manguel, Alberto 

Public ISBD Titre : A history of reading Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Manguel, Alberto, Auteur Editeur : New York : The Viking Press Année de publication : ©1996 Importance : 372 p. Présentation : illustrations Format : 24 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-670-84302-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Books and reading--History Résumé : 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 Note de contenu : 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. A history of reading [texte imprimé] / Manguel, Alberto, Auteur . - New York : The Viking Press, ©1996 . - 372 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-670-84302-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Books and reading--History Résumé : 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 Note de contenu : 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.

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