From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts - Hardcover

Shillingsburg, Peter L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521864984 ISBN 13: 9780521864985

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

From Gutenberg to Google Shillingsburg explores the new and future possibilities, some yet untapped, for electronic representations of printed works. Full description

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Book Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521864984
• ISBN 13: 9780521864985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224