The Gutenberg elegies : the fate of reading in an electronic age / Sven Birkerts.
By: Birkerts, Sven
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BookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 1996Description: 231 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0571190456.Subject(s): Books and reading | Authors and readers | Electronic publishing -- Social aspects | Books and reading -- Sociological aspects | Literature and society | LiteracyDDC classification: 028.9
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 028.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010487 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Discussing in personal and cultural terms the values of reading, and examining what may be lost as society turns towards CD-ROM, hypertext and audio books, the critic Sven Birkerts, whose essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic and Harper's, offers a defence of the place of reading and the printed word in the face of rapid technological advances. He argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get on-line, as we make the transition from book to screen, we are turning against some of the core premises of humanization. The printed page and the circuit-driven information technologies are not related - for Birkerts they represent fundamentally opposed forces, and in their inevitable confrontation our deepest values will be tested.
Bibliography: p. 231.