The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western ar
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| Title | : | The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (251 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226468852 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1995-03-01 |
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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 anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself.Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them."The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh®. This hypertext edition allo
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly In this heady glimpse at an electronic universe, UCLA English professor Lanham contends that the digitized text of the computer screen offers a richer, more complex perceptual field than the printed book. He further claims that interactive electronic text creates a playful, creative medium akin to the rhetoric of the ancient Greeks. In Lanham's scenario, rhetoric was an open-ended pattern of Western education that was supplanted by Newtonian thought and the printed book. These academic essays grandiosely maintain that digitized technology can democratize higher education, open up the arts to a full range of human talent and foster a convergence between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities. Lanham surveys interactive novels, video-and-text programs for business and government, electronic textbooks and common ground between the computer and the aesthetics of futurism, dada and postmodern visual art. And, yes, the book is available in electronic form; as
Some of the players were forced to move on, while others left on their own. This is two books for the price of one, really. The text is interesting and at times seems almost poetic. Adam Engst's explanations are clear. Yet this is like criticizing the Yosemite Valley or Grand Canyon that recall hikers, climbers and photographers back again and again to get new experience and perspective.
I am deeply grateful to Martha Stark for what she has written. I am still reading it, but I can say it is an interesting book that will be of good use for people interested in communicating knowledge to others.. The scholarship is excellent, the writing is excellent and at times witty, as well as quite opinionated. It is full of true and amazing stories of God working through people to make something much bigger and better come about. She ends up becoming a famous lace maker in Vienna. This is the second volume ot the authors little book "A first course in mathematical analysis". MB wisely r
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