Track Changes: A Literary History of Word ProcessingThe 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. |
Contents
It Is Known | 1 |
Chapter 1 Word Processing as a Literary Subject | 14 |
Chapter 2 Perfect | 33 |
Chapter 3 Around 1981 | 51 |
Chapter 4 North of Boston | 74 |
Chapter 5 Signposts | 92 |
Chapter 6 Typing on Glass | 119 |
Illustrations | 126 |
Chapter 9 Reveal Codes | 184 |
Chapter 10 What Remains | 207 |
After Word Processing | 235 |
Authors Note | 249 |
Notes | 251 |
Credits | 329 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
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Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing Matthew G. Kirschenbaum No preview available - 2016 |