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Radiant Textuality
J. McGann
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Description for Radiant Textuality
Paperback. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 375.
This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the humanities - its theories of textuality and communication - that are being forced by developments in information technology. A threshold was crossed during the last decade of the twentieth century with the emergence of the World Wide Web, which has (1) globalized access to computerized resources and information, and (2) made interface and computer graphics paramount concerns for work in digital culture. ... Read more
This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the humanities - its theories of textuality and communication - that are being forced by developments in information technology. A threshold was crossed during the last decade of the twentieth century with the emergence of the World Wide Web, which has (1) globalized access to computerized resources and information, and (2) made interface and computer graphics paramount concerns for work in digital culture. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403964366
SKU
V9781403964366
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Ref
99-15
About J. McGann
JEROME MCGANN has helped to define the central topics in literature, theory, and cultural studies for the past twenty years. He is one of the founding members of U. of Virginia's celebrated Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. His most recent books are Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (Yale UP 2000) and Byron and ... Read more
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