A Companion to Digital Literary Studies
by Siemens, Ray; Schreibman, SusanEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-01-14
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies Includes the seminal writings from the field Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography
Author Biography
Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria; President of the Society for Digital Humanities; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, Siemens has authored numerous articles on the interconnection between literary studies and computational methods.
Susan Schreibman is Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland College Park, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. She is the founding editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive and Irish Resources in the Humanities; has served on the Council of the TEI Consortium; and is currently on the Executive of the Association for Computers in the Humanities. In 1991, Schreibman authored the Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition and has published in the areas of Irish poetic modernism, digital editing and textual studies. She co-edited Blackwell’s A Companion to Digital Humanities with Ray Siemens and John Unsworth in 2004.
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Editor’s Introduction | |
| Imagining the new media encounter | |
| Literary Studies and the Tradition of Computing | |
| ePhilology: When the books talk to their readers | |
| Disciplinary impact and technological obsolescence in digital medieval studies | |
| "Knowledge will be multiplied": Digital literary studies and early modern literature | |
| Online resources for eighteenth-century literature in English and other European languages: image, text and hypertext | |
| Multimedia and multitasking: a survey of digital resources for nineteenth-century literary studies | |
| Hypertext and avant-texte in twentieth century and contemporary literature | |
| Methods and Perspectives | |
| Reading digital literature: surface, data, interaction, and expressive processing | |
| Is there a text on this screen?: Reading in an era of hypertextuality | |
| Reading on screen: the new media sphere | |
| Electronic scholarly editions | |
| The Text Encoding Initiative and the study of literature | |
| Knowing true things by what their mockeries be: modelling in the humanities | |
| Algorithmic criticism | |
| Writing machines | |
| Cybertextuality and philology | |
| Quantative analysis and literary studies | |
| Genres | |
| Handholding, remixing, and the instant replay: new narratives in a postnarrative world | |
| Too dimensional: literary and technical images of potentiality in the history of hypertext | |
| Riddle machines: the history and nature of interactive fiction | |
| Digital poetry: a look at generative, visual, and interconnected possibilities in its first four decades | |
| Digital literary studies: performance and interaction | |
| Licensed to play: digital games, player modifications, and authorized production | |
| Private public reading: readers in digital literature installation | |
| Representation, Practice, and Preservation | |
| The Virtual Codex from page space to e-space | |
| Digital and analogue texts | |
| The Virtual Library | |
| Fictional worlds in the digital age | |
| Practice and preservation – format issues | |
| Character encoding | |
| Annotated bibliography: exemplary projects | |
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