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Skip to main content. Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. A Journal of the History of Rhetoric , Vol. A Journal of the History of Rhetoric username. Forgot your user name or password? Log in through your institution You may be able to gain access using your login credentials for your institution. Contact your library if you do not have a username and password. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them.
This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages," annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
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This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of elec The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters.
Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that "electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them.
This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking "pages," annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 10, Mary rated it liked it Shelves: Rather, I think, technology comes from filling an existing need—for online banking, for coordinating business meetings, for keeping in touch with you closest friend—which is based in pragmatics, not play. We use technology to fulfill some aesthetic or attitude that was already pre-existing. Mar 29, James Pete added it. I suppose Lanham wants a lot of support for his theses, because he's a fine writer himself but.
He says, in effect, that much in western literature is misread because of lack of rhetorical analysis. Long quote from C. Lewis agreeing with him. I surely didn't know rhetoric's place in history of education.