The edge of the precipice [[electronic resource] ] : why read literature in the digital age? / / edited by Paul Socken

• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.911
• Soggetto topico: Literature and the Internet; Literature and technology; Books and reading - Social aspects; Books and reading - Technological innovations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SockenPaul
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: A Return to the Educated Imagination / Paul Socken -- Technology, Science, and the Book. Why I Read War and Peace on a Kindle (and Bought the Book When I Was Done) / Michael Austin -- Reading in a Digital Age: Notes on Why the Novel and the Internet Are Opposites, and Why the Latter Both Undermines the Former and Makes It More Necessary / Sven Birkerts -- Solitary Reading in an Age of Compulsory Sharing / Drew Nelles -- ; Physical and Philosophical Approaches. A World without Books? / Vincent Giroud -- Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the Paradox of Self / Mark Kingwell -- ; Poetic Readings. The End of Reading / Alberto Manguel -- Cold Heaven, Cold Comfort: Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? / J. Hillis Miller - Fragments from an Entirely Subjective Story of Reading / Lori Saint-Martin -- A Very Good Chance of Getting Somewhere Else / Katia Grubisic -- ; Literature and the World (Part Two). Thinking Deeply in Reading and Writing / Keith Oatley -- Don't Panic: Reading Literature in the Digital Age / Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia -- Why Read against the Grain? Confessions of an Addict / Gerhard van der Linde.
• Titolo autorizzato: The edge of the precipice
• ISBN: 0-7735-8988-0; 0-7735-8987-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452913603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II