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Mendelsund, Peter.
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Books and reading.
Phenomenology.
Visual perception in literature.
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Mendelsund, Peter.
Books and reading.
Phenomenology.
Visual perception in literature.
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What
we
see
when
we
read
: a
phenomenology
; with
illustrations
/ Peter Mendelsund.
by
Mendelsund, Peter.
Vintage Books, 2014.
Call #:
028.9 M537w
Subjects
Books and reading.
Phenomenology
.
Visual perception in literature.
ISBN:
9780804171632 (pbk.)
0804171637 (pbk.)
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Description:
xix, 419 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
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