The electronic word: democracy, technology, and the arts
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 auth…
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- Full title :The electronic word : democracy, technology, and the arts / Richard A. Lanham.
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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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- Publication Date:1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago [Illinois]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
Notes
Published in Chicago, Illinois.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 285 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0226468836, 9780226468839, 0226468844, 9780226468846, 0226468852, 9780226468853
- oclc:ocm28256906
- LC Classification:QA76.9.C66
- Dewey Decimal:303.48/34
Table of Contents
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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