Peter L. Shillingsburg: From Gutenberg to Google: electronic representations of literary texts (2006)
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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 of composition, revision, production, distribution and reception, Shillingsburg reveals what is involved in the task of transferring texts from print to electronic media. He explores the potentials, some yet untapped, for electronic representations of printed works in ways that will make the electronic representation both more accurate and more rich than was ever possible with printed forms. However, he also keeps in mind the possible loss of the book as a material object and the negative consequences of technology.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN 0521864984, 9780521864985
216 pages
Key terms: SGML, Textual Criticism, Jerome McGann, Vanity Fair, textual scholar, William Makepeace Thackeray, ASCII, text files, Text Encoding Initiative, W. W. Greg, comparison computer program, Stijn Streuvels, typesetting, English Literary Studies, Victorian fiction, University of Michigan, computer files, JITM, W. M. Thackeray, Malcolm Lowry
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