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Track Changes - A Literary History of Word Processing (Hardcover)
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Track Changes - A Literary History of Word Processing (Hardcover)
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The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as
the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg's print
shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the
period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word
processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a
marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The
product of years of archival research and numerous interviews
conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary
history of word processing. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how the
interests and ideals of creative authorship came to coexist with
the computer revolution. Who were the first adopters? What kind of
anxieties did they share? Was word processing perceived as just a
better typewriter or something more? How did it change our
understanding of writing? Track Changes balances the stories of
individual writers with a consideration of how the seemingly
ineffable act of writing is always grounded in particular
instruments and media, from quills to keyboards. Along the way, we
discover the candidates for the first novel written on a word
processor, explore the surprisingly varied reasons why writers of
both popular and serious literature adopted the technology, trace
the spread of new metaphors and ideas from word processing in
fiction and poetry, and consider the fate of literary scholarship
and memory in an era when the final remnants of authorship may
consist of folders on a hard drive or documents in the cloud.
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