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A reader on reading / Alberto Manguel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 030015982X
  • 9780300159820 (trade : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 028.9 MAN 22
LOC classification:
  • Z1003 .M2925 2010
Contents:
A reader in the looking-glass wood -- Room for the shadow -- On being Jewish -- Meanwhile, in another part of the forest -- The further off from England -- Homage to Proteus -- Borges in love -- Borges and the longed-for Jew -- Faking it -- The death of Che Guevara -- The blind bookkeeper -- The perseverance of truth -- AIDS and the poet -- The full stop -- In praise of words -- A brief history of the page --The voice that says "I" -- Final answers -- What song the sirens sang -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader -- How Pinocchio learned to read -- Candide in Sanssouci -- The gates of paradise -- Time and the doleful knight -- Saint Augustine's computer -- Reading white for black -- The secret sharer -- Honoring Enoch Soames -- Jonahand the whale -- The legend of the dodos -- In memoriam -- God's spies -- Once again, Troy -- Art and blasphemy -- At the mad hatter's table -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library -- The library of the wandering Jew -- The library as home -- The end of reading.
Summary: A collection of essays from Alberto Manguel, an Argentine-born Canadian author, in which he discusses his views on literature and the activity of reading.
Holdings
Item type Home library Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Book Book Lise Kütüphanesi / High School Library İngilizce Roman Dışı / English Non Fiction (HS) 028.9 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T 315011

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index.

A reader in the looking-glass wood -- Room for the shadow -- On being Jewish -- Meanwhile, in another part of the forest -- The further off from England -- Homage to Proteus -- Borges in love -- Borges and the longed-for Jew -- Faking it -- The death of Che Guevara -- The blind bookkeeper -- The perseverance of truth -- AIDS and the poet -- The full stop -- In praise of words -- A brief history of the page --The voice that says "I" -- Final answers -- What song the sirens sang -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader -- How Pinocchio learned to read -- Candide in Sanssouci -- The gates of paradise -- Time and the doleful knight -- Saint Augustine's computer -- Reading white for black -- The secret sharer -- Honoring Enoch Soames -- Jonahand the whale -- The legend of the dodos -- In memoriam -- God's spies -- Once again, Troy -- Art and blasphemy -- At the mad hatter's table -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library -- The library of the wandering Jew -- The library as home -- The end of reading.

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A collection of essays from Alberto Manguel, an Argentine-born Canadian author, in which he discusses his views on literature and the activity of reading.

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