The traveler, the tower, and the worm : the reader as metaphor /

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The author 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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Manguel, Alberto
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Literature and anthropology.
Literature and society.
Signs and symbols.
Books and reading > Philosophy.
Littérature et anthropologie.
Littérature et société.
Signes et symboles.
Livres et lecture > Philosophie.
symbols.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature and anthropology
Literature and society
Signs and symbols
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