Review of: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

Elena Spadini

doi:10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7344

Review of: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. e Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

Autori

Elena Spadini Université de Lausanne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-2833

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7344

Parole chiave:

literary, computational, writing, technology

Abstract

Cosa si intende per Literary history of word processing? L’importanza e l’innovatività di questo libro è sottolineata dal titolo. Il saggio di Matthew Kirschenbaum «seeks to narrate and describe in material and historical terms how computers, specifically word processing, became integral to literary authorship and literary writing» (p. xiii). Il libro segue un percorso diacronico, «reverse chronological trajectory [...], sometimes identified with what is called media archaeology» (p. xv), anche se ogni capitolo è tematico. Questa recensione ripercorre tutti i capitoli, ponendo maggiore accento su alcuni.

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2018-05-22

Come citare

Spadini, E. (2018). Review of: Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. e Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. Umanistica Digitale, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7344