Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks

by Peter Szendy

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A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading

"Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated scene of reading? What reads when we...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1942130961

ISBN13:9781942130963

Release Date:February 2025

Publisher:Zone Books

Length:208 Pages

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