Lanham: Electronic Word: Preface

Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1993.

Lanham was raised in Classical Rhetoric class. It sounded intimidating, and then it sounded interesting. So I am slowly reading it.

x Lanham cites Jay David Bolter: we'll lose literacy for print, not literacy itself
xi electronic text liberates language from the rules of print
xi electronic word "incarnates the distinction between literate and oral cultures..."
xi manipulation of scale in electronic realm
xii print is philosophic medium; electronic screen is rhetorical mediuam
xiii "And I think too that the instructional practices built upon the electronic word will not repudiate the deepest and most fundamental currents of Western education in discourse but redeem them."