The electronic word

This highly acclaimed collection of author Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. The author explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Claiming that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, the author proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them."

First sentence: In this essay, first published in 1989, I tried to suggest the broad spectrum of changes brought by electronic text.

Year

1993

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Editions

2

Pages

302

ISBN

9780226468853

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