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The Future Of The Book

  • The Future Of The Book
  • Attribution

    edited by Geoffrey Nunberg ; with an afterword by Umberto Eco
  • Publication Details

    Book, University of California Press, 2007
  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  Z1003 .F9 1996         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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  • Subject

  • Notes

    • Revised papers presented at a conference held at the University of San Marino, July 28-30, 1994
  • Contents

    • Preface / Patrizia Violi
    • Introduction / Geoffrey Nunberg
    • Books in time / Carla Hesse
    • The pragmatics of the new : Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus / James J. O’Donnell
    • Material matters : the past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid
    • Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg
    • The book as symbolic object / Rgis Debray
    • Toward metareading / Patrick Bazin
    • Hypertext and authorship / Luca Toschi
    • Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book? / George P. Landow
    • The body of the text / Raffaele Simone
    • Ekphrasis, virtual reality, and the future of writing / Jay David Bolter
    • (Re)placing the author : "A book in the ruins" / Michael Joyce
    • Afterword / Umberto Eco
  • ISBN

    • 0520204514
    • 0520204506
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