Who Needs Books?
«#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of April 15, 2016 The Edmonton Journal. "[Coady] digs into the recurring social panic that new technology is making us stupid, lazy and unable to appreciate our established cultural forms... Starting with a Sesame Street anecdote and carrying on through Planet of the Apes and 50 Shades of Grey references, she systematically dismantles the common arguments that nobody is reading anymore and our literary culture is dying." Bruce Cinnamon, Vue Weekly, June 9-15, 2016»
"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Alberta Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781772121247
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 23 x 13 cm
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«#7 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of April 15, 2016 The Edmonton Journal. "[Coady] digs into the recurring social panic that new technology is making us stupid, lazy and unable to appreciate our established cultural forms... Starting with a Sesame Street anecdote and carrying on through Planet of the Apes and 50 Shades of Grey references, she systematically dismantles the common arguments that nobody is reading anymore and our literary culture is dying." Bruce Cinnamon, Vue Weekly, June 9-15, 2016»
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