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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: O'Donnell, James Joseph, 1950- Avatars of the word. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605536842 |
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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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From the many strands of O'Donnell's academic life he has woven a consideration of the 'connections among speaking, writing, and reading today.' "Avatars of the Word" is, however, about ever so much more than those connections. The implications and importance of the book's contents are worth serious contemplation by all intellectuals--especially those who contribute to and draw from peer-reviewed scientific literature. The threads of "Avatars" lead from Socrates and Plato; through the Alexandria and other libraries, codices, Augustine, Cassiodorus, and both old and new liberal arts; to the virtual library, hyperlinking, distance education (and other threatening attributes of the 21st-century university) and the life of the mind in cyberspace.--Michael A. Keller "Science " Read more...
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