From Gutenberg to Google Electronic Representations of Literary Texts

Name: From Gutenberg to Google Electronic Representations of Literary Texts
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ISBN: 9780521683470

ISBN-10: 0521683475

ISBN-13: 9780521683470

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter L. Shillingsburg

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As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls, the enhancements and distortions, the achievements and inadequacies of electronic editions of literary texts. In tracing historical changes in the processes of composition, revision, production, distribution and reception, Shillingsburg reveals what is involved in the task of transferring texts from print to electronic media. He explores the potentials, some yet untapped, for electronic representations…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Manuscript, book, and text in the twenty-first century



Complexity, endurance, accessibility, beauty, sophistication, and scholarship



Script act theory



An electronic infrastructure for representing script acts



A conceptual space for electronic knowledge sites



Practical problems



Victorian fiction: shapes shaping reading



The dank cellar of electronic texts



Negotiating conflicting aims in textual scholarship



Hagiolatry, cultural engineering, monument building, and other functions of scholarly editing



The everlasting no



The center of indifference



The everlasting yea



The aesthetic object: "the subject of our mirth"



Ignorance in literary studies


Bibliography


Index