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This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education. The changes flow from the re-examination of the very foundations of the humanities - its theories of textuality and communication - that are being forced by developments in information technology. A threshold was crossed during the last decade of the twentieth century with the emergence of the World Wide Web, which has (1) globalized access to computerized resources and information, and (2) made interface and computer graphics paramount concerns for work in digital culture. While these changes are well known, their consequences are not well understood, despite so much discussion by digital enthusiasts and digital doomsters alike. In reconsidering these matters, Radiant Textuality introduces some remarkable new proposals for integrating computerized tools into the central interpretative and critical activities of traditional humanities disciplines, and of literary studies in particular.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction Beginning Again: Humanities and Digital Culture, 1993–2000
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Hideous Progeny, Rough Beasts: 1993–1995
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Imagining What You Don’t Know: 1995–1999
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Quantum Poetics: 1999–2000
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About the author
JEROME MCGANN has helped to define the central topics in literature, theory, and cultural studies for the past twenty years. He is one of the founding members of U. of Virginia's celebrated Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. His most recent books are Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (Yale UP 2000) and Byron and Wordsworth (Nottingham, 1999).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radiant Textuality
Book Subtitle: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web
Authors: Jerome McGann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10738-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29352-9Published: 06 December 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6436-6Published: 06 December 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-10738-1Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 272
Topics: Literary Theory