From Gutenberg to Google - Electronic Representations of Literary Texts

Informationen zum Autor Peter L. Shillingsburg is Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Klappentext Shillingsburg explores the new and future possibilities, some yet untapped, for electronic representations of printed works. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Shillingsburg Peter L., Peter L. Shillingsburg, Peter L. (De Montfort University Shillingsburg
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521864985
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86498-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet