From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts

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Cambridge University Press, 31 aug 2006
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.

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Inhoudsopgave

Gedeelte 1
25
Gedeelte 2
40
Gedeelte 3
80
Gedeelte 4
126
Gedeelte 5
138
Gedeelte 6
151
Gedeelte 7
161
Gedeelte 8
173
Gedeelte 9
189

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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 135 - tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy winds to keep Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an indescribable feud ; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude.
Pagina 34 - With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Pagina 78 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Pagina 80 - What I want is to make a set of people living without God in the world (only that is a cant phrase), greedy, pompous men, perfectly self-satisfied for the most part, and at ease about their superior virtue.
Pagina 181 - Nothing would sleep in that cellar, dank as a ditch, Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark, Shoots dangled and drooped, Lolling obscenely from mildewed crates, Hung down long yellow evil necks, like tropical snakes.
Pagina 67 - It is the same with written words: they seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you just the same thing forever.
Pagina 49 - ... complexity is not a crime, but carry it to the point of murkiness and nothing is plain. Complexity, moreover, that has been committed to darkness, instead of granting itself to be the pestilence that it is...
Pagina 56 - This was because, when addressed naturally, they grasped some or most of the meaning. And one does speak 'naturally', naturally. Thus, to demonstrate their aphasia, one had to go to extraordinary lengths, as a neurologist, to speak and behave un-naturally, to remove all the extraverbal cues — tone of voice, intonation, suggestive emphasis or inflection, as well as all visual cues (one's expressions, one's gestures, one's entire, largely unconscious, personal repertoire and posture): one had to...

Over de auteur (2006)

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

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