单词 | post-gutenberg |
释义 | post-Gutenbergadj. Of or relating to the time since the advent of printing in the Western world; (now also) of or relating to a time in which the printed word is regarded as being in decline owing to the rise of electronic media. ΚΠ 1959 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Crit. 17 440 It remained for the post-Gutenberg age, the era of the allegorical tableau, to project a panoramic work of the magnitude of Spenser's and to win for the work a measure of acceptance. 1988 E. Elliott et al. Columbia Lit. Hist. U.S. v. i It has been one of the clichés of the post-Gutenberg era that print culture was dead or dying. 1993 Time 31 May 61/2 The spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe. 2003 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 30 June a15 While I share his lament that ‘too many school libraries are now little more than storage rooms’, this fact is a symptom of the widespread devaluation of traditional (print) literacy in our post-Gutenberg culture. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1959 |
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