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" The electronic word : "
Richard A. Lanham.
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BL
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625326
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| Main Entry
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Lanham, Richard A.
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The electronic word : : democracy, technology, and the arts /\ Richard A. Lanham.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1993.
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xv, 285 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0226468836 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226468839 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226468844 (floppy disk)
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: 9780226468846 (floppy disk)
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: 0226468852
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: 9780226468853
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Electronic word : literary study and the digital revolution -- Digital rhetoric and the digital arts -- Twenty years after : digital decorum and bi-stable allusions -- Extraordinary convergence : democracy, technology, theory, and the university curriculum -- Electronic textbooks and university structures -- Strange lands, strange languages and useful miracles -- "Q" question -- Elegies for the book -- Operating systems, attention structures, and the edge of chaos -- Conversation with a curmudgeon.
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This highly acclaimed collection of author Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. The author 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 anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Claiming that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, the author proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them."
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Computers and civilization.
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QA76.9.C66L363 1993
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