- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (18 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198236638
- ISBN-13: 978-0198236634
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 2 cm
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Since the 1950s, when Roland Barthes re-expressed the formalist ideal of an open-ended text, there has been much interest among literary critics and theorists of text in the question of what text is and what it gives us access to. The computer storage and electronic dissemination of texts adds a new controversy to the debate: what is the significance of the electronic text for the representation and transmission of knowledge? In its functions as multi-text storer and in its capacity to weave, unweave, and reweave text, the computer lends itself to a variety of later twentieth-century theoretic and cultural practices, from the decomposing strategies of deconstructive criticism to the date-dense contextualism of criticisms of postmodernism, coming from new historicism, cultural anthropology, and post-Marxism. The contributors to this book examine the impact of electronic technology on literary and textual studies. They ask how the computer is being used to reshape ideas of text, of authorship, of a literary canon, of authenticity and value as embodied in the edited work. They combine approaches from literary theory, the philosophy of text, feminist theory, and textual criticism. Topics include interactive Shakespeare, the poetry of Laetitia Landon, Mark Twain and hypertext, and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
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She is also Director of Project Electra, an electronic textbase of women's writings in English.
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oh, god, no
26 Feb 2003
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If there has been a single lowest point in my life as a reader, it must be the discovery that the Clarendon Press had published an essay with the title, 'The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text.' Despite its obsessive concern with logical and factual minutiae, this book leaves one big question unanswered: who the hell cares?
Trees died for this. There's a bibliographical fact.
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