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THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES
FATE OF READING IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE |
| By: |
Sven Birkerts |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571190456 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571190454 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
5 August, 1996 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
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 offers a defence of the place of reading and the printed word in the face of rapid technological advances. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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