id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15281 Africa, Chris O’Donnell, James J. Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1998. 210p. $24.95, alk. paper (ISBN 0-674‐05545-4). LC 97-32256. 1999-03-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1291 64 51 As new technologies of the word open up the field of textual production and consumption, voices previously ex­ cluded increasingly challenge those mas­ ter narratives. Higher education, too, has a significant contribution to make in preparing people for life in a world of electronic text. cache/crl-15281.pdf txt/crl-15281.txt