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Avatars of the word: from papyrus to cyberspace

James Joseph O'Donnell
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction: The Scholar in His Study (page 1)
  • 1 Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato (page 14)
  • 2 From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond (page 29)
  • Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text (page 44)
  • 3 From the Codex Page to the Homepage (page 50)
  • Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading (page 64)
  • 4 The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New (page 71)
  • Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? (page 92)
  • 5 The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations (page 99)
  • 6 Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways (page 124)
  • 7 The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World (page 144)
  • Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? (page 163)
  • 8 What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) (page 167)
  • 9 Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace (page 190)
  • Bibliographic Notes (page 198)
  • Index (page 208)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJP 121.2 (Summer 2000): 334-335 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/v121/121.2bolter.html
B2 28.3 (2001): 191-205 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/boundary/v028/28.3grafton.html
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Published: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright Holder: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674001947 (paper)
  • 9780674055452 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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