Reading Life

Books for the Ages

von

Birkerts, Sven

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

256 Seiten

Englisch

Graywolf Presserschienen am03.04.2007

Acclaimed critic Sven Birkets decided to reinvest himself in the books that formed the landmarks of his inner life. In his words, Reading, the mind's traffic in signs and signifiers, is the most dynamic, changeful and possibly transformational act we can imagine.' By returning to the light-posts which marked his formative years, Birkets dissects the foundations themselves, finding strange sediments of self: of time, of memory, of the forming and ever-changing processes of intellectual life.'mehr

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KlappentextAcclaimed critic Sven Birkets decided to reinvest himself in the books that formed the landmarks of his inner life. In his words, Reading, the mind's traffic in signs and signifiers, is the most dynamic, changeful and possibly transformational act we can imagine.' By returning to the light-posts which marked his formative years, Birkets dissects the foundations themselves, finding strange sediments of self: of time, of memory, of the forming and ever-changing processes of intellectual life.'

Details

ISBN/GTIN978-1-55597-464-0

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

Graywolf Press

Erscheinungsjahr2007

Erscheinungsdatum03.04.2007

Seiten256 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 227 mm, Dicke 15 mm