Main entry:

Lanham, Richard A., author.

Title & Author:

The electronic word : democracy, technology, and the arts / Richard A. Lanham.

Publication:

Chicago [Illinois] : The University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Description:

xv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Published in Chicago, Illinois.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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."

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226468836 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226468839 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226468844 (floppy disk)
9780226468846 (floppy disk)
0226468852 (paper)
9780226468853 (paper)
(e-book)
9780226469126

Subject:

Computers and civilization.
Information society.
Information technology Social aspects.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Société de l'information.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
54.89 applications of computer systems, computer technology: other.
05.20 communication and society.
Datenverarbeitung
Demokratisierung
Schriftliche Kommunikation
Computers.
Maatschappij.
Elektronische informatie.
Society Effects of Computers

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240467
Call No.: QA76.9.C66 L36 1993
Status: Available