A reader on reading
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- ISBN: 9780300159820 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 030015982X (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xi, 308 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
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. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Donation ; 2011/05. |
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Subject: | Manguel, Alberto -- Books and reading Books and reading Books and reading |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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VIU Library - Nanaimo Campus | Z 1003 M2925 2010 (Text) | M011551534 | STACKS | Volume hold | Available | - |