Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Name: Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
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ISBN: 9780865479579

ISBN-10: 0865479577

ISBN-13: 9780865479579

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sven Birkerts

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In The Gutenberg Elegies, nationally renowned critic Sven Birkerts powerfully argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get "on line, " as we make the transition from book to screen, says Birkerts, we are turning against some of the core premises of humanism - indeed, we are putting the idea of individualism itself under threat. The printed page and the circuit driven information technologies are not kindred - for Birkerts they represent fundamentally opposed forces. In their inevitable confrontation our deepest values will be tested. Birkerts begins…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.33" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Joel Agee has translated numerous German authors into English, including Heinrich von Kleist, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Elias Canetti. In 2005 he received the Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth Award for his translation of Hans Erich Nossack’s The End: Hamburg 1943. Sven Birkerts teaches at Mount Holyoke College and the Bennington Writing Seminary. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.