A reader on reading
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300163049 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0300163045 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780300159820
- ISBN: 030015982X
- ISBN: 9780300172089
- ISBN: 0300172087
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 308 p.) : ill. - Publisher: New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Terms of use - Multi-user. CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jun.14 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Jonah and 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. |