Traveler, the tower, and the worm, the: the reader as metaphor
Auteur :
Manguel, Alberto
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812245233
Date de publication :
19 juil. 2013
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Alberto Manguel examines metaphors of readers and reading from literatures across centuries and the globe, from the ancient epic Gilgamesh to the World Wide Web, from the adventures of Ulysses to the tragedy of Emma Bovary, and he considers how these metaphors reflect the cultures that invent them.