ENG 557 - Text And Medium: The Future Of Reading

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University of Rochester

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The goal of Text and Medium is an understanding of the relationship between the "text" that we generally assume is some kind of "content" and the "medium" that communicates it. The perspective of the seminar is historical and critical. The key assumption is that media—the human voice, film, electronic files--shape their "content"--words, pictures, sounds—and their authors and their audiences. There have always been media because life cannot be lived without them. This year's topic is print—the dominant medium of communication for five centuries, its power and influence only now waning in the face of a digital revolution. This remarkable media shift puts us among the first explorers to arrive on the scene of epoch-making changes. We should take advantage of our own unique intellectual opportunity to look back on the history of print from the powerful new perspective of digital media. We shall enlist the traditional tools that critics have developed to analyze and understand literary works.

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5.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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