The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm : : The Reader as Metaphor / / Alberto Manguel.
As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 19 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Reader as Traveler Reading as Recognition of the World
- Chapter 2. The Reader in the ivory tower Reading as Alienation from the World
- Chapter 3. The bookworm The Reader as Inventor of the World
- Conclusion. Reading to Live
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments