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050	0	4	_aZ1003 _b.R433 2010
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aManguel, Alberto. _e1
245	1	0	_aA reader on readingAlberto Manguel.
260			_aNew Haven, [Conn. : _bYale University Press, _c(c)2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : _billustrations.
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505	0	0	_aA reader in the looking-glass wood -- _tRoom for the shadow -- _tOn being Jewish -- _tMeanwhile, in another part of the forest -- _tThe further off from England -- _tHomage to Proteus -- _tBorges in love -- _tBorges and the longed-for Jew -- _tFaking it -- _tThe death of Che Guevara -- _tThe blind bookkeeper -- _tThe perseverance of truth -- _tAIDS and the poet -- _tThe full stop -- _tIn praise of words -- _tA brief history of the page -- _tThe voice that says "I" -- _tFinal answers -- _tWhat song the sirens sang -- _tNotes towards a definition of the ideal reader -- _tHow Pinocchio learned to read -- _tCandide in Sanssouci -- _tThe gates of paradise -- _tTime and the doleful knight -- _tSaint Augustine's computer -- _tReading white for black -- _tThe secret sharer -- _tHonoring Enoch Soames -- _tJonah and the whale -- _tThe legend of the dodos -- _tIn memoriam -- _tGod's spies -- _tOnce again, Troy -- _tArt and blasphemy -- _tAt the mad hatter's table -- _tNotes towards a definition of the ideal library -- _tThe library of the wandering Jew -- _tThe library as home -- _tThe end of reading.
520	0		_a"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." --
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650		0	_aBooks and reading.
600	1	0	_aManguel, Alberto _xBooks and reading.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=568261&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell