Full title: Avatars of the word : from papyrus to cyberspace / James J. O'Donnell.

Author/creator: O'Donnell, James Joseph, 1950-.

Date: 1998..

Call Numbers: N302.2309/2

Record Identifier: 74VM06P3XdzX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xii, 210 p. ; 22 cm., Introduction: The Scholar in His Study -- 1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato -- 2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond -- Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text -- 3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage -- Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading -- 4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New -- Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? -- 5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations -- 6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways -- 7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World -- Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? -- 8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) -- 9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace.

Publishers: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-207) and index.

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DDC: 302.2309

MMS ID: 991001670449702626