A History of Reading
Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : 9780140166545 |
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Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : 9780140166545 |
On history of reading
Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0698178971 |
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 |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558494114 |
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 |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781861892096 |
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 | : Shafquat Towheed |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Books and reading |
ISBN | : 9780415484206 |
'The History of Reading' offers an accessible overview of this developing discipline, from the rise of literacy through to the current trend of book clubs.
Author | : Abigail Williams |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300228104 |
“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
Author | : Jamie Camplin |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606065866 |
“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts. Such artworks show us not only how books have been valued over time but also how the practice of reading has evolved in Western society. Featuring over one hundred works by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.
Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300163045 |
In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called “the Casanova of reading,” argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. “We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything,” writes Manguel, “landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create.” Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading. The thirty-nine essays in this volume explore the crafts of reading and writing, the identity granted to us by literature, the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges, to whom Manguel read as a young man, and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. The powers of censorship and intellectual curiosity, the art of translation, and those “numinous memory palaces we call libraries” also figure in this remarkable collection. For Manguel and his readers, words, in spite of everything, lend coherence to the world and offer us “a few safe places, as real as paper and as bracing as ink,” to grant us room and board in our passage.
Author | : Martyn Lyons |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230001629 |
A wide-ranging overview of the history of reading and writing in western societies from ancient times to the digital age. Author from University of NSW, Australia.
Author | : David L. Ulin |
Publisher | : Sasquatch Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1632171953 |
Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and it's seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own. Are we willing to risk our collective interest in contemplation, nuanced thinking, and empathy? Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, to pages.