From Gutenberg to Google - Peter L. Shillingsburg

From Gutenberg to Google

Electronic Representations of Literary Texts
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2006
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86498-5 (ISBN)
107,20 inkl. MwSt
Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls of electronic editions of literary texts. He reveals what is involved in the task of transferring texts from print to electronic media, which will produce great advances in textual study but may ultimately lead to the loss of the book as a material object.
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 of printed works in ways that will make the electronic representation both more accurate and more rich than was ever possible with printed forms. However, he also keeps in mind the possible loss of the book as a material object and the negative consequences of technology.

Peter L. Shillingsburg is Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Preface; 1. Manuscript, book, and text in the twenty-first century; 2. Complexity, endurance, accessibility, beauty, sophistication, and scholarship; 3. Script act theory; 4. An electronic infrastructure for script acts; 5. Victorian fiction: shapes shaping reading; 6. The dank cellar of electronic texts; 7. Negotiating conflicting aims in textual scholarship; 8. Hagiolatry, cultural engineering, monument building, and other functions of scholarly editing; 9. The aesthetic object: 'the subject of our mirth'; 10. Ignorance in literary studies; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.8.2006
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 494 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 0-521-86498-4 / 0521864984
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86498-5 / 9780521864985
Zustand Neuware
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