National Science Library of Georgia

The electronic word

Lanham, Richard A.

The electronic word democracy, technology, and the arts / [electronic resource] : Richard A. Lanham. - University of Chicago Press, 1993. - 1 online resource (xv, 285 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution; 2. Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts; 3. Twenty Years After: Digital Decorum and Bi-stable Allusions; 4. The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum; 5. Electronic Textbooks and University Structures; 6. Strange Lands, Strange Languages, and Useful Miracles; 7. The "Q" Question; 8. Elegies for the Book; 9. Operating Systems, Attention Structures, and the Edge of Chaos; 10. Conversation with a Curmudgeon; Index.

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses.

9780226469126 (electronic bk.) 0226469123 (electronic bk.) 0226468836 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226468839 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226468844 (floppy disk) 9780226468846 (floppy disk) 0226468852 (paper) 9780226468853

264637 MIL


Computers and civilization.
Social Science.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
COMPUTERS--Social Aspects--General.
Computers.
Maatschappij.
Elektronische informatie.
Datenverarbeitung.
Schriftliche Kommunikation.
Demokratisierung.

Society Effects of Computers


Electronic books.

QA76.9.C66 / L363 1993eb

303.48/34
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