Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and BibliomaniaISBN: 978-0-7456-1659-9
Paperback
208 pages
December 2006, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- A compelling history of theories of reading, a common component
of literary theory and history of the book courses at undergraduate
level.
- This is the first major work to bring insights from book
history to bear on literary history and theory.
- One of the first books to examine systematically the impacts of
digital technologies on both the material book and the physical
reader.
- Each chapter places the reader in a specific disciplinary and
historical context: literature, criticism, philosophy, cultural
history, bibliography, film, new media.
- Essential reading for students of literary theory and of the history of the book.