Richard A Lanham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1092148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Lanham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanham |
| SIGNATURE | LANHAM R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Electronic Word
The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
This paper argues that the fundamental “operating system” for the humanities is changing from the book to the digital multimedia computer screen. It outlines the consequences of this move for the creation, performance, teaching, and study of literature, music, and the visual arts. It concludes with a suggestion for how this movement from page to digital display might inform the administrative changes forced upon the university by the current shor…
The electronic word
This highly acclaimed collection of author Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. The author explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Claiming that the move from book to scree…
The Electronic Word
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
The first edition of this widely used work has been reprinted many times over two decades. With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, it provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms--mostly Greek and Latin--that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or to find useful in their writing. Now the Second Edition offers new features that will make it still …
The Extraordinary Convergence
Research Article| January 01 1990 The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 27–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-1-27 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. Lanham; The Extraordinary Conver…
The Electronic Word
whether our students will be reading Great Traditional Books or Relevant Modern ones in the future, but whether they will be reading books at all. Our first round of technological perturbation, which pitted the codex book and Culture As We Know It against commercial television, didn't turn out so badly as we feared. The print media continued to thrive during TV's great expansion period.' And literature continued to be taught in American schools a…
The "Q" Question
Research Article| October 01 1988 The "Q" Question Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (4): 653–700. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-4-653 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. Lanham; The "Q" Question. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1988; 87 (4): 653–700. doi: https://doi.org…
Literacy and the Survival of Humanism
Unredeemed Rhetoric
Game, play, and high seriousness in Chaucer's poetry
The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
This paper argues that the fundamental “operating system” for the humanities is changing from the book to the digital multimedia computer screen. It outlines the consequences of this move for the creation, performance, teaching, and study of literature, music, and the visual arts. It concludes with a suggestion for how this movement from page to digital display might inform the administrative changes forced upon the university by the current shor…
The Electronic Word
whether our students will be reading Great Traditional Books or Relevant Modern ones in the future, but whether they will be reading books at all. Our first round of technological perturbation, which pitted the codex book and Culture As We Know It against commercial television, didn't turn out so badly as we feared. The print media continued to thrive during TV's great expansion period.' And literature continued to be taught in American schools a…
Game, play, and high seriousness in Chaucer's poetry
Game, play, and high seriousness in Chaucer's poetry
Unredeemed Rhetoric
Literacy and the Survival of Humanism
The "Q" Question
Research Article| October 01 1988 The "Q" Question Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (4): 653–700. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-4-653 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. Lanham; The "Q" Question. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1988; 87 (4): 653–700. doi: https://doi.org…
The Electronic Word
whether our students will be reading Great Traditional Books or Relevant Modern ones in the future, but whether they will be reading books at all. Our first round of technological perturbation, which pitted the codex book and Culture As We Know It against commercial television, didn't turn out so badly as we feared. The print media continued to thrive during TV's great expansion period.' And literature continued to be taught in American schools a…
The Extraordinary Convergence
Research Article| January 01 1990 The Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum Richard A. Lanham Richard A. Lanham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1990) 89 (1): 27–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-89-1-27 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard A. Lanham; The Extraordinary Conver…
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
The first edition of this widely used work has been reprinted many times over two decades. With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, it provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms--mostly Greek and Latin--that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or to find useful in their writing. Now the Second Edition offers new features that will make it still …
The electronic word
This highly acclaimed collection of author Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. The author explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Claiming that the move from book to scree…
The Electronic Word
The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
This paper argues that the fundamental “operating system” for the humanities is changing from the book to the digital multimedia computer screen. It outlines the consequences of this move for the creation, performance, teaching, and study of literature, music, and the visual arts. It concludes with a suggestion for how this movement from page to digital display might inform the administrative changes forced upon the university by the current shor…
The Electronic Word
Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Word (group theory) (3 works) · Citation (2 works)