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1. Computer Power and Human Reason

   Computer Power and Human Reason

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 10:43

2. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing

   This book is a study of the computer as a new technology for reading and writing -- a technology that may replace the printing press as our principal medium of symbolic communication. One of the main subjects of Writing Space is hypertext, a technique that allows scientists, scholars, and creative writers to construct texts that interact with the needs and desires of the reader. Bolter explores both the theory and practice of hypertext, demonstrating that the computer as hypertext represents a new stage in the long history of writing, one that has far-reaching implications in the fields of human and artificial intelligence, cognitive science, philosophy, semiotics, and literary theory.

   Scott Rettberg - 06.09.2011 - 11:54

3. The Textual Condition

   Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

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   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 14:53

4. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

   Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

   Scott Rettberg - 30.06.2013 - 16:26

5. Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

   The literary self-portrait is a genre struggling with its own identity and its place in the general body of Western literature. Contributors to this particular literary form include St. Augustine, Bacon, Montaigne, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Barthes; the works, according to author Michel Beaujour, do not know how to designate themselves. Are they a valid form of written communication or are they a solipsistic exercise of little use to the reading community? Is the self-portrait merely a form of autobiography? Beaujour considers these questions and explores the self-portrait in careful detail, tracing its development from the Confessions, to the Essais, to its most recent manifestations in the 20th century.

   Pål Alvsaker - 12.09.2017 - 15:02

6. What was Postmodernism

   What was Postmodernism

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 24.09.2019 - 14:30