A Reader on Reading

Pound, Ezra

Procrustes

Profit, as measure of value Proteus

Proust, Marcel; La Prisonnière

Publishing industry: editor’s role in; and electronic reading; promotion of books; and small publishers

Puig, Manuel; Kiss of the Spider Woman

Punctuation

Queen’s Quarterly

Quem auctor intendit (“what the author intended”)

Queneau, Raymond, A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems

Quintilian

Qur’an

Rabelais

Ramelli, Agostino

Reading: alterations over time; as anonymous act; Augustine on; commentary on text; and comprehension; constraints on; Dante’s levels of; democratic; devotional; electronic text; forms of; future of; gardening associated with; as homecoming; ideal reader; imaginary space of; interactive text; learning to read; naming task in; purpose of; reader’s positive blindness; and rereading; as safe place in incomprehensible world; and self-discovery; silent; subversive readings; turning of a page. See also Books; Libraries; Literature

Reagan, Ronald

Rechy, John

Reid, Alastair

Religion: and blasphemy; contrition ritual in; conversion of Guarini; etymology; and humor; Kabbalists

Renard, Jules

Renham, Henry de

Ricci, Franco Maria

Rimbaud, Arthur

Risso Platero, Emma

Rivadavia (pseud.)

Roa Bastos, Augusto

Robespierre, Maximilien

Rodriguez, Félix

Rojas, Pedro

Roman de la Rose

Romilly, Jacqueline de, La Grèce antique à la découverte de la liberté

Rowling, J. K.

Rushdie, Salman

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Sabato, Ernesto

Sade, marquis de

Saer, Juan José

Saikaku, Ihara

Salinger, J. D.; Catcher in the Rye

Sanssouci, gardens at

Santiago, Hugo

Sarduy, Severo

Saro-Wiwa, Ken

Saturday Night

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Schliemann, Heinrich

Scholasticism

Scholem, Gershom

Schrott, Raoul

Schwarz-Bart, André

Schwob, Marcel, Imaginary Lives

Sciascia, Leonardo

Scientific research: on AIDS drugs; as intellectual property; moral imperatives in; and profit

Scilingo, Adolfo Francisco

Scott, Walter, Kenilworth

Scrolls

Scudéry, Mademoiselle de, Clélie

Selich, Andrés

Sexuality. See Erotic experience; Erotic literature; Homosexuality

Shakespeare, William; Borges’s lecture on; The Comedy of Errors; Henry IV; King Lear

Shaw, George Bernard; Major Barbara

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shi Huangdi

Siciliano, Enzo

Simenon, Georges

Sirens: dangers of song; of Dante; descriptions of; legends about; in Odyssey; in Republic

Smith, Corlies M.

Soames, Enoch

Socrates; on truth-sayers

Solanas, Fernando

Song of Songs

Sophocles, Ajax

Sorrentino, Fernando

South Africa, AIDS drugs in

Spain, Franco-era

Spectator

Stair, Nadine

Stalin, Joseph

Stallo, Luis

Stampa

Stein, Gertrude

Steinbeck, John

Steiner, George; After Babel

Stendhal; The Red and the Black

Sterne, Laurence; Tristram Shandy

Stevens, Wallace

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island

Stewart, Paul

Stoppard, Tom, The Invention of Love

Sue, Eugène

Suetonius

Sumerian slabs and tablets

Summers, Claude J., Gay Fictions

Sur

Swan, Susan

Swift, Jonathan; Gulliver’s Travels

Talmud, Babylonian

Taylor, Bayard, Joseph and His Friend

Tenniel, John

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Testamentary works

Thomas, Edward

Thoreau, Henry David, “Civil Disobedience,”

Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll); constructed identity in; insane world of; literary faith in; naming task in; reading experience in; Red Queen’s denial in

Tiberius, Emperor

Torah

Torpéist, Senchán

Torre, Guillermo de

Trag, William

Translation

Truth, perseverance of

Truth-sayers

Tzotzil dictionary

Valéry, Paul

Value: of art; Mad Hatter’s code of; of Montezuma’s treasure; precedence of economic; words denoting

Vargas Llosa, Mario, defense of Menem’s amnesty

Varro, Marcus

Vellum

Vermeer, Johannes, View of Delft

Verne, Jules, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Victor Gollancz

Victoria, Queen

Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar

Videla, Jorge

Viking Penguin

Viola, Roberto

Virgil

Vise, David, The Bureau and the Mole

Vitali, Guido

Völsunga Saga

Voltaire: Candide; Essai sur les moeurs; and Friedrich II; at Sanssouci; Sémiramis

Walcott, Derek

Walcott, Joyce

Walpole, Horace

Walsh, Rodolfo

Wandering Jew

Warfare, universal

Washington Post

Weldon, Fay

Wells, H. G., The Island of Dr. Moreau

Wendover, Roger of West, Rebecca

White, Edmund, A Boy’s Own Story

Whitman, Walt; Leaves of Grass

Wilbur, Richard

Wilde, Oscar; The Picture of Dorian Gray; “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,”

Wilderness, garden as

Williams, Tennessee, One Arm and Other Stories

Wilson, Edmund