From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts

by Peter L. Shillingsburg

Book Overview

As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls, the enhancements and distortions, the achievements and inadequacies of electronic editions of literary texts. In tracing historical changes in the processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521683475
• ISBN13: 9780521683470
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"