[DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB): New Book Excerpt Available]

[Peter Graham <psgraham@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU>]

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:36 +0000
From: DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB)
Subject: New Book Excerpt Available
Resent-To: psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu

To: *LANHAM

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Dean Blobaum
The University of Chicago Press
dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu

*** ASCII enclosure follows.  Original filename: LANHAM.ANN
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The University of Chicago Press is making available on the
Internet an excerpt from _The Electronic Word_ by Richard
Lanham.  In _The Electronic Word_ Lanham, a professor of English
at UCLA, surveys the effects of electronic text on arts and
letters, on the academy, and on the future of democratic
education.  The excerpt includes the book's fourth chapter:
"Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and
the University Curriculum".  The excerpt may be retrieved via
gopher, anonymous FTP, or e-mail.  The ASCII text file is about 65K.

View and/or retrieve via gopher:
Gopher to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu (port 70) and choose the
menu item "New Books from Chicago"

Retrieve the ASCII text file LANHAM.TXT via anonymous FTP:
FTP to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu
cd pub/Excerpts
lanham.txt

Retrieve the ASCII text file via e-mail:
Send e-mail to etext-request@press.uchicago.edu with the subject
field blank and a message consisting of SEND ELECWORD; the
request is handled by a human, not a machine.

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Dean Blobaum
The University of Chicago Press
dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu
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