E-crit: Digital Media, Critical Theory, And the Humanities - Couverture rigide

O'Gorman, Marcel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802090370 ISBN 13 : 9780802090379

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2006

Synopsis

In E-Crit, Marcel O'Gorman takes an ambitious and provocative look at how university scholarship, pedagogy, and curricula might be transformed to suit a digital culture. Arguing that universities were founded on the logic of print culture, O'Gorman sets out to reinvent the academic apparatus, constructing a hybrid methodology that draws on avant-garde art, deconstructive theory, cognitive science, and the work of painter and poet William Blake. O'Gorman explores the ways in which digital media might help to restore the critical, intellectual purpose of higher education, which has been repressed by the technocratic structures that dominate the modern university. He argues that the revolutionary, socio-critical impetus that spurred deconstructive theory and transformed the humanities was lost in the initial attempts to digitize the literary canon and demonstrate the convergence of critical theory and hypertext. Humanities disciplines, he argues, must reposition themselves through the invention of humanities-based interdisciplinary programs capable of adapting to the post-print vicissitudes of a digital culture. E-Crit is thus essential reading for anyone concerned with the practice - and future - of the humanities in higher education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marcel O'Gorman is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Waterloo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802090370
• ISBN 13: 9780802090379
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible