From papyrus to hypertext:toward the universal digital library

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vandendorpe Christian.
Published: University of Illinois Press,
Publisher Address: Urbana
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Topics in the digital humanities
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Item Description: Du papyrus à l'hypertexte.
Carrier Form: ix, 191 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780252034350
025203435X
9780252076251 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252076257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: H05
CLC: H05
Call Number: H05/V227
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.
Introduction -- In the beginning was the ear -- Writing and the fixation of thought -- The power of the written sign -- Writing and orality -- Standards of readability -- Linearity and tabularity -- Toward the tabular text -- Meaning and effect -- Filters in reading -- Textuality : form and substance -- Textual connections -- Instances of utterance -- From Interactivity to the pseudo-text -- Varieties of hypertext -- Context and hypertext -- The limitations of lists -- Aporias of hyperfiction -- Reading images -- The writer and images -- The rise of the visual -- The period, the pause, and the emoticon -- Op. cit -- The reader: user or consumer of signs? -- Intensive and extensive reading, or the rights of the reader -- Metaphors for reading -- Representations of the book -- The role of the publisher -- The CD-ROM and nostalgia for the papyrus scroll -- Giving the reader control -- Text and interactivity -- Managing hyperlinks -- I click, therefore I read -- The end of the Page? -- On the fragment -- The body of the text -- The decline of the novel -- The rise of the blog -- A culture of participation and sharing -- Toward the universal digital library.