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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.
Titre(s) : Track changes [Texte imprimé] : a literary history of word processing / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap press of Harvard university press, 2016
Description matérielle : xvi, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-327) and index
"The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained
rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg's print shop or the hot molten lead of the
linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption
of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while
others decried it as the death of literature. The product of years of archival research
and numerous interviews conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary
history of word processing. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how the interests and ideals
of creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the
first adopters? What kind of anxieties did they share? Was word processing perceived
as just a better typewriter or something more? How did it change our understanding
of writing? Track Changes balances the stories of individual writers with a consideration
of how the seemingly ineffable act of writing is always grounded in particular instruments
and media, from quills to keyboards. Along the way, we discover the candidates for
the first novel written on a word processor, explore the surprisingly varied reasons
why writers of both popular and serious literature adopted the technology, trace the
spread of new metaphors and ideas from word processing in fiction and poetry, and
consider the fate of literary scholarship and memory in an era when the final remnants
of authorship may consist of folders on a hard drive or documents in the cloud."--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Littérature et informatique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674417076. - ISBN 0674417070
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45576983x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45576983
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : It is known ; Word processing as a literary subject ; Perfect ; Around 1981 ;
North of Boston ; Signposts ; Typing on glass ; Unseen hands ; Think tape ; Reveal
codes ; What remains ; After word processing.
