0253335094 1995 first edition Indiana University Press (Bloomington,

0253335094 1995 first edition Indiana University Press (Bloomington, Indiana), 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches tall purple cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, silver lettering to spine, xviii, 161 pp. Very slight foxing to fore page edges. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a very slightly sun-faded dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~HH~ [2.0P] A book about how readers read and how critics read, An Anthropology of Reading pieces together ethnographic descriptions, cultural artifacts, and descriptive analyses to reveal literary criticism as its own culture of reading. Livingston interleaves discussions of captioned photographs, simple arithmetical calculations, tests of reading comprehension and the like with original readings of poems by T. S. Eliot, Dudley Fitts, Wilfred Owen, and Dylan Thomas, and with interrogations of the criticism about these poems. 'A significant, original contribution to the study of reading. '-Matei Calinescu, Indiana University.

First Ed; First Printing indicated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding

First Ed; First Printing indicated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. As New. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 161pp. Hardback with DJ.