What We See When We Read

Posted on 03 April 2018 by Peter Mendelsund

A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.What do we see when we read Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like The collection of fragmented images on a page a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved or reviled literary figures.In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf s Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award winning designer his first career, as a classically trained pianist and his first love, literature he thinks of himself first, and foremost, as a reader into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading. Download What We See When We Read – kino-fada.fr We perform a book, and we attend the performance. Words have a unique power to impose pictures into the inward eye of the mind In a recent thread, a friend commented on how Homer, despite his supposed blindness, had the ability to create metaphors which werevisual and imaginatively stunning that modern CGI has been able to manage Words have a power that even visual stimulation cannot capture It is interesting to consider the cliche that the book is better than the movie which in most We perform a book, and we attend the performance. Words have a unique power to impose pictures into the ...My mother has a most unusual reading habit She is an avid reader and is able to finish a 500 page book in a day This is not the strange thing here What is beyond surprising is the fact that she doesn t form pictures in her head as she reads She reads the words but doesn t feel the need to play out the action using her imagination Also, she claims that writing essays was her weakest part at school Her function of imagining things has always been below average No wonder she is the m My mother has a most unusual reading habit She is an avid reader and is able to finish a 500 page book in a day This is not the strange thing here What is beyond surprising is the fact that she doesn t form pictures in her head as she reads She reads the words but doesn t feel the need to play out the action using her imagination Also, she claims that writing essays was her weakest part at school Her function of imagining things has always been below average No wonder she is the most pragmatic person I know Me, on the other hand I am the complete opposite If I cannot form the scenes in my mind, if I find it difficult to be the director of the b...What an utterly absorbing and fascinating read Mendelsund, a renowned cover designer, looks into exactly what the title suggest, what we see or think we see when we read He dissects everything from first lines and impressions to the performative nature of reading the reader as a part of the text to how memory implants itself on the mind s eye while reading It s packed with illustrations and provides an excellent starting point to further examine what we are doing exactly when we read words What an utterly absorbing and fascinating read Mendelsund, a renowned cover designer, looks into exactly what the title suggest, what we see or think we see when we read He dissects everything from first lines and impressions to the performative nature of reading the reader as a part of the text to how memory implants itself on the mind s eye while reading It s packed with illustrations and provides an excellent starting point to further examine what we are doing exactly when we read words on a page I think all readers should read this book, for the mere fact that they would find something resonant in the work.I particularl...I somehow forgot to review this one despite reading it in preparation for my Reading May Experience course, and using some of the quotations and bits from it in reflection prompts This is a visual study on what we know about reading This is a book I d like to own and dip in and out of from time to time, a real pleasure Most people who read will get something out of it The openings of To the Lighthouse and Moby Dick are confusing for the reader we haven t yet been given sufficient informati I somehow forgot to review this one despite reading it in preparation for my Reading May Experience course, and using some of the quotations and bits from it in reflection prompts This is a visual study on what we know about reading This is a book I d like to own and dip in and out of from time to time, a real pleasure Most people who read will get something out of it The openings of To the Lighthouse and Moby Dick are confusing for the reader we haven t yet been given sufficient information to begin processing the narrative and its imagery.But we are used to such confusion All books open in doubt and dislocation When you first open a book, you enter a liminal space 60 61 Sometimes Mendelsund muses on an idea and leaves it open for the reader to answer We gul...I must begin this review by stating my prejudice of supreme enjoyment when reading about reading I find this enterprise endlessly fascinating TheI examine it thethere seems to examine.Along with the purity of sheer enjoyment there was nothing which shattered my world, nor though was it a dry review of what I already knew By including drawings, pieces of conceptual art he is best known for designing book covers for well known works he conjured from his imagination pictorials which I must begin this review by stating my prejudice of supreme enjoyment when reading about reading I find this enterprise endlessly fascinating TheI examine it thethere seems to examine.Along with the purity of sheer enjoyment there was nothing which shattered my world, nor though was it a dry review of what I already knew By including drawings, pieces of conceptual art he is best known for designing book covers for well known works he conjured f...Com gr ficos, fotografias, desenhos e um m nimo de texto, Mendelsund utilizando exemplos de alguns romances cl ssicos elabora um exerc cio muito divertido sobre o acto de leitura como cada leitor v as personagens, os lugares N o fa a isso, por favor n o o fa a O inseto n o pode ser representado N o pode sequer ser mostrado ao longe Esta a mensagem enviada por Kafka ao editor de Metamorfose, talvez com o objetivo de proteger os atos imaginativos dos seus leitores.Agora percebi bem Com gr fi...Peter Mendelsund director de arte da Alfred A Knopf, uma das mais conceituadas editoras norte americanas, e um premiado desenhador de capas de livros, produzindo as capas de livros mais ic nicas e imediatamente reconhec veis da fic o contempor neaO Que Vemos Quando Lemos tem textos e ilustra es numa obra liter ria que discorre sobre literatura e sobre as imagens Sendo designer Peter Mendelsund reflecte sobre o processo de imaginar coisas a part Peter Mendelsund director de arte da Alfred A Knopf, uma das mais conceituadas editoras norte americanas, e um premiado desenhador de capas de livros, produzindo as capas de livros mais ic nicas e imediatamente reconhec veis da fic o contempor neaO Que Vemos Quando Lemos tem textos e ilustra es numa obra liter ria que discorre sobre literatura e sobre as imagens Sendo designer Peter Mendelsund reflecte sobre o processo de imaginar coisas a partir de uma palavra, uma frase ou um texto liter rio A hist ria da leitura uma hist ria recordada Quando lemos, estamos imersos E, quanto mais imersos estamos, menos capacidade temos, no momento, de voltar a aten o da...I started off liking this book I thought Mendelsund was on to something interesting and original But theI read, theI felt I was reading something by a postmodernist writer You know the type They sound high and mighty, but in the end it s impossible to tell what their point is, assuming they have a point Mendelsund makes a great deal of how we imagine the characters of a novel look like Well, I, for one, make no attempt to imagine how Anna Karenina looks like when I read the nov I started off liking this book I thought Mendelsund was on to something interesting and original But theI read, theI felt I was reading something by a postmodernist writer You know the type They sound high and mighty, but in the end it s impossible to tell what their point is, assuming they have a point Mendelsund makes a great deal of how we imagine the characters of a novel look like Well, I, for one, make no attempt to imagine how Anna Karenina looks like when I...Peter Mendelsund s What We See When We Read might almost be useful to those just coming to the idea of immersive, experiential reading, analytical reading, especially non fiction, does not figure into this work, but for those who ve been following, or studying, the phenomenon of non critical reading this will be a tedious read The graphics are excellent, but they are disguising the fact you are reading a very, very short book only 21k The problem with this is that what you are getting is les Peter Mendelsund s What We See When We Read might almost be useful to those just coming to the idea of immersive, experiential reading, analytical reading, especially non fiction, does not figure into this work, but for those who ve been following, or studying, the phenomenon of non critical reading this will be a tedious read The graphics are excellent, but they are disguising the fact you ...In some places I was all like WOAH NO WAY and other places I was all like YEAH NO SHIT and other places I was all like LOL and other places I was all like PICTURES 4 stars.

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03 April 2018

Peter Mendelsund