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Book SynopsisSurveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters and how they might be taught in a newly democratized society. To those who view electronic text as a cultural catastrophe, Lanham counters that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfil them."
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1: The Electronic Word: Literary Study and the Digital Revolution 2: Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts 3: Twenty Years After: Digital Decorum and Bi-stable Allusions 4: The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum 5: Electronic Textbooks and University Structures 6: Strange Lands, Strange Languages, and Useful Miracles 7: The "Q" Question 8: Elegies for the Book 9: Operating Systems, Attention Structures, and the Edge of Chaos 10: Conversation with a Curmudgeon Index
