A History of Reading in the West (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Contributors: Guglielmo Cavallo (Editor); Roger Chartier (Editor); Lydia G. Cochrane (Translator)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781558494114
Subjects: Library & Information Sciences; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books And Reading; Literary Criticism; World - General; Books & Reading; Essays
First sentence: In this passage Michel de Certeau establishes a fundamental distinction between a written mark - something fixed, lasting, preserving - and its readings, which are always of the order of the ephemeral, plurality and invention.