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Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace
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Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace

Author: James Joseph O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Joseph O'Donnell
ISBN: 0674055454 9780674055452
OCLC Number: 37819954
Description: xii, 210 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The scholar in his study -- Phaedrus: hearing Socrates, reading Plato -- From the Alexandrian Library to the virtual library and beyond -- Hyperlink: The instability of the text -- From the Codex page to the homepage -- Hyperlink: The shrine of nonlinear reading -- The persistence of the old and the pragmatics of the new -- Hyperlink: Who owns that idea? -- The ancients and the moderns: the classics and western civilizations -- Augustine today: linear narratives and multiple pathways -- The new liberal arts: teaching in the postmodern world -- Hyperlink: How does teaching work? -- What becomes of universities? (For professors only) -- Cassiodorus: Or, the life of the mind in cyberspace.
Responsibility: James J. O'Donnell.
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