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Rhetorics of Surface and Depth in Digital Poetry (Q4687)

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a work by Andrew Michael Roberts, Anna Katharina Schaffner
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Rhetorics of Surface and Depth in Digital Poetry
a work by Andrew Michael Roberts, Anna Katharina Schaffner

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    2006
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    978-88-49-12989-2
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    Digital Poetry usually appears on a screen. A computer monitor screen is a surface with implicit depth, because it is the visible manifestation of something which is, almost inevitably, imagined as having an “inside” (the CPU) or, increasingly, an “elsewhere”: the file server, web space or network. Mainframe computers and free-standing PCs tended to evoke a rhetoric of depth because their “workin… (English)
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