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232 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226360768
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 January 2003
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Why do we so often speak of books as living, flourishing, and dying? And what is at stake when we do so? This habit of treating books as people, or personifying texts, is rampant in postwar American culture. In this bracing study, Amy Hungerford a...
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232 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226360768
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 January 2003
Description
Why do we so often speak of books as living, flourishing, and dying? And what is at stake when we do so? This habit of treating books as people, or personifying texts, is rampant in postwar American culture. In this bracing study, Amy Hungerford a...
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