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crl-15131	Alexander, Jean	The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1996. 306p. $45 cloth, ISBN 0-520-20450-6; $14.95 paper, ISBN 0-520-20451-4. LC 95-45441.	1997	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1799	137	46	James J. O’Donnell (“The Prag- matics of the New: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus”) iden- tifies three periods of crisis: (1) late antiquity, when the authority of writ- ten texts was established; (2) the fif- teenth century, a period of considerable resistance to printed books; and (3) the age of Marshall McLuhan’s prophecies about the medium and the message. Carla Hess (“Books in Time”) uses ex- amples from eighteenth-century France to prove that modern literary culture was not the inevitable result of the in- vention of printing but, rather, the con- sequence of social and political choices.	cache/crl-15131.pdf	txt/crl-15131.txt