Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Anatomy Of Bibliomania
Author: Holbrook JacksonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015432864
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Bibliomania; Or, Book-madness; Containing Some Account of the History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Theories of Reading
Author: Karin LittauPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745616593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions, this is the first major work to bring insights from book history to bear on literary history and theory. In so doing, the book charts a compelling and innovative history of theories of reading. While literary theorists have greatly contributed to our understanding of the text-reader relation, they have rarely taken into account that the relation between a book and a reader is also a relation between two bodies: one made of paper and ink, the other flesh and blood. This is why, Karin Littau argues, we need to look beyond the words on the page, and pay attention to the technical innovations in the physical format of the book. Only then is it possible to understand more fully how media technology has changed our experience of reading, and why media history presents a challenge to our conceptions of what reading is. Each chapter places the reader in specific disciplinary and historical contexts: literature, criticism, philosophy, cultural history, bibliography, film, new media. Overall, the history recounted in this book points to a split between modern literary study which regards reading as a reducibly mental activity, and a tradition reaching back to antiquity which assumed that reading was not only about sense-making but also about sensation. Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literary theory and history as well as of great interest to students of the history of the book and new media.
The Bibliomaniac
Author: Charles NodierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliomania
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature A, in a Letter Adressed to the Author of the Bibliomania
Author: Thomas Frognall DibdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Author: Eugene FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A Gentle Madness
Author: Nicholas A. BasbanesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979949159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
The Anatomy of Bibliomania
Author: Holbrook JacksonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070433
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion for them that leads to bibliomania. This title comments on why we read, where we read - on journeys, at mealtimes, on the toilet (this has 'a long but mostly unrecorded history'), in bed, and in prison - and what happens to us when we read.
Bibliophobia
Author: Brian CummingsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192847317
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
This volume is illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works. It tells a 5000-year history of writing and books, giving readers an account of why books matter and how they impact our lives.