| Description |
306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Patrizia Violi -- Introduction / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Books in time / Carla Hesse -- The pragmatics of the new: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus / James J. O'Donnell -- Material matters: The past and futurology of the book / Paul Duguid -- Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg -- The book as symbolic object / Regis Debray -- Toward metareading / Patrick Bazin -- Hypertext and authorship / Luca Toschi -- Twenty minutes into the future, or how are we moving beyond the book? / George P. Landow -- The body of the text / Raffaele Simone -- Ekphrasis, virtual reality, and the future of writing / Jay David Bolter -- (Re)placing the author: "A book in the ruins" / Michael Joyce -- Afterword / Umberto Eco |
| Analysis |
Books |
|
Databases |
|
Social change |
|
Cultural values |
|
Literature |
|
Overseas item |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Books.
|
|
Written communication.
|
|
Databases.
|
|
Books and reading.
|
| Author |
Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1945-
|
|
Eco, Umberto.
|
| LC no. |
95045441 |
| ISBN |
0520204506 hardback |
|
0520204514 paperback |
|
