RE: A Literary History of Word Processing

["Michael Norman" michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for reminding us of this forthcoming book, Carl. I hope he discusses
the way WP had changed the process of composition. It's fascinating. For
incessant rewriters such as me, it's been both revelation and revolution.
Meanwhile, with WPs on the mind, I'm waiting for NB to finally get out of
Beta before I embrace it.

Michael Norman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] On
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>Of Carl Distefano
>Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:54 AM
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>Subject: A Literary History of Word Processing
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>
>I clipped this piece from the NY Times when it came out in December, then
forgot
>about it:
>
>http://nyti.ms/rZP4Nl
>
>It features a forthcoming book by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, a professor of
English at
>the University of Maryland, to be called "Track Changes: A Literary History
of Word
>Processing". From the
>article:
>
>"... literary scholars have become increasingly interested in studying how
the tools of
>writing both shape literature and are reflected in it, whether it's the
quill pen of the
>Romantic poets or the early round typewriter, known as a writing ball, that
Friedrich
>Nietzsche used to compose some aphoristic fragments. ...
>
>"Mr. Kirschenbaum ... said he was less interested in analyzing the
stylistic impact of
>word processing than in recovering its early history, particularly its
adoption by
>mainstream writers."
>
>No mention of XyWrite in the article, but I assume that it will figure in
the book.
>
>--
>Carl Distefano
>cld@xxxxxxxx
>