A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
Document Type
Presentation
Date of this Version
3-2011
Abstract
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography for 2011:
Monday, March 21, 2011: "The Reader as Traveller": Total time, 01:11:51.
Welcome and Introduction: David McKnight (00:01); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (07:20); Question and Answer: (52:20)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011: "The Reader in the Ivory Tower": Total time, 01:05:09.
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01); Introduction: Derick Dreher, The Rosenbach Museum & Library (01:50); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (05:47); Question and Answer: (48:30)
Thursday, March 24, 2011: "The Reader as Bookworm": Total time, 01:21:14.
Welcome: David McKnight (00:01-04:32); Introduction: Roger Chartier (03:05); Lecture: Alberto Manguel (9:52); Question and Answer: (58:18)
The 2011 Rosenbach Fellow, Argentine-born Canadian writer, translator, and editor Alberto Manguel, now living in France, is the author of novels, including All Men Are Liars (2008); non-fiction, including A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), and A Reader on Reading (2010); and studies of works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. From 1964 to 1968, Manguel was a reader for Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires.
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Manguel1Hi.mp3 (50523 kB)Lecture 1 (high fidelity, 64 kbps MP3 audio)
Manguel1Lo.mp3 (16841 kB)
Lecture 1 (medium fidelity, 32 kbps MP3 audio)
Manguel2Hi.mp3 (45804 kB)
Lecture 2 (high fidelity, 64 kbps MP3 audio)
Manguel2Lo.mp3 (15268 kB)
Lecture 2 (medium fidelity, 32 kbps MP3 audio)
Manguel3Hi.mp3 (57118 kB)
Lecture 3 (high fidelity, 64 kbps MP3 audio)
Manguel3Lo.mp3 (19039 kB)
Lecture 3 (medium fidelity, 32 kbps MP3 audio)
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Date Posted: 09 May 2011
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A series of three lectures presented 21-24 March 2011 in Claudia Cohen Hall and in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania.