Title Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace / James J. O'Donnell

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998

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Description xii, 210 pages ; 22 cm Contents Introduction: The Scholar in His Study -- 1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato -- 2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond -- Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text -- 3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage -- Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading -- 4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New -- Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? -- 5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations -- 6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways -- 7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World -- Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? -- 8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) -- 9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace Analysis Books Communication Electronic publishing History Overseas item Technological change Writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-207) and index Subject Communication and technology -- History. Cyberspace. Written communication -- History. Author American Council of Learned Societies. LC no. 97032256 ISBN 0674055454 (alk. paper)

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