Bitstreams : the future of digital literary heritage /
Author / Creator: | Kirschenbaum, Matthew G., author. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] |
Description: | xii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Material texts Material texts. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12637083 |
Summary: | What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading--are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual criticism, and bibliography when literary texts are distributed across digital platforms, devices, formats, and networks? Indeed, what is textual scholarship when the "text" of our everyday speech is a verb as often as it is a noun? |
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Physical Description: | xii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812253412 0812253418 9780812224955 0812224957 9780812298048 |