Bibliograph

From Gutenberg to Google, electronic representations of literary texts, Peter L. Shillingsburg

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From Gutenberg to Google, electronic representations of literary texts, Peter L. Shillingsburg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-208) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From Gutenberg to Google

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70059788

Responsibility statement

Peter L. Shillingsburg

Sub title

electronic representations of literary texts

Summary

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 & read texts. In this book, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials & pitfalls of electronic editions of literary texts

Table Of Contents

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 representing script acts : A conceptual space for electronic knowledge sites ; Practical problems -- 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 : The everlasting no ; The center of indifference ; The everlasting yes -- 9. The aesthetic object: 'the subject of our mirth' -- 10. Ignorance in literary studies

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