The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and ...

Si quieres...lee, contra la obligación de leer y otras utopías lectoras es todo un alegato en defensa del placer de la lectura, y un ataque contra todas las políticas del libro y del fomento de la lectura que consideran la lectura como una ...

Major authors investigated include Chaucer, Blake, Romains, Pynchon, and Prigogine.

Jay indaga acerca del lugar ocupado por la visión en la tradición occidental. El campo de la visualidad pasa ahora a formar parte del proyecto de una arqueología del saber, prácticamente intocado por unas ciencias humanas obsesionadas ...

"The most famous introduction to prints. Through a series of enlarged details of prints in various media, Ivins makes clear the stylistic qualities peculiar to each technique."- Choice

The author argues that we need to reckon with images not merely as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, and drives of their own. He explores this idea and highlights his innovative and ...

Una detallada explicación del juego entre lo visible y lo legible en la cultura.

Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book ...