What We See When We Read Contributor(s): Mendelsund, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804171637 ISBN-13: 9780804171632 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Art |
Dewey: 028.9 |
LCCN: 2014007896 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 7.9" L (0.95 lbs) 448 pages |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014 Booklist 07/01/2014 pg. 4 Shelf Awareness 08/05/2014 Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 107 Publishers Weekly 09/29/2014 Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2014 pg. 36 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus Best Book of the Year A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page--a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so--and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved--or reviled--literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature--he considers himself first and foremost as a reader--into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading. |
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