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The pleasures of reading : in an ideological age / Robert Alter.
LIBRA - Special Z1003 .A567 1989
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LIBRA - Rare Z1003 .A567 1989 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alter, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- Canon (Literature).
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 250 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London ; Toronto : Simon and Schuster, [1989]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The disappearance of reading
- One: The difference of literature
- Two: Character and the connection with reality
- Three: Style
- Four: Allusion
- Five: Structure
- Six: Perspective
- Seven: Multiple readings and the bog of indeterminacy.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Irving Perkins Associates."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has highlighted passages and marginal marks throughout.
- ISBN:
- 0671631837 :
- OCLC:
- 18988697
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