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A History of Reading Alberto Manguel

A History of Reading By Alberto Manguel

A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel


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Summary

This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary genres.

A History of Reading Summary

A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel

This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the creative will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary forms and genres. From man's first use of the written word simply as a form of reference, to the emergence of the first holy or devotional texts, and onto the development of fictions, both poetic and novelistic, this work aims to both challenge and enlighten.

About Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and educated there. He has an international reputation as a polyglot anthopologist, translator and editor of great gifts ('both enthusiastic and meticulous...with a brilliant strong natural taste,' Guardian). His works in English include Black Water: the Flamingo Anthology of Fantastic Literature and (with Craig Stephenson) In Another Part of the Forest: the Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature. His highly acclaimed novel, News from a Foreign Country Came, won the McKitterick Prize in 1992.

Additional information

GOR001283946
9780006546818
0006546811
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
19970421
384
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