A Companion to Digital Literary Studies offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies. Through a series of specially commissioned articles by leading scholars, theorists, and writers creating born-digital literature, the text provides a thorough overview of the intersections between computing, literary studies, and new media. It takes a highly interdisciplinary perspective in its examination of scholarly editing and literary criticism, interactive fiction and gaming, multimedia and immersive environments, and born digital literature. This…mehr
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies. Through a series of specially commissioned articles by leading scholars, theorists, and writers creating born-digital literature, the text provides a thorough overview of the intersections between computing, literary studies, and new media. It takes a highly interdisciplinary perspective in its examination of scholarly editing and literary criticism, interactive fiction and gaming, multimedia and immersive environments, and born digital literature. This Companion is the only comprehensive collection of seminal works available to meet the needs of this growing area of inquiry. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand, use, or create digital literature.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Notes on Contributors viii
Editors' Introduction xviii Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman
Part I Introduction 1
1 Imagining the New Media Encounter 3 Alan Liu
Part II Traditions 27
2 ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 29 Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Jones
3 Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in DigitalMedieval Studies 65 Daniel Paul O'Donnell
4 ''Knowledge will be multiplied'':Digital Literary Studies and Early Modern Literature 82 Matthew Steggle
5 Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages:Image, Text, and Hypertext 106 Peter Damian-Grint
6 Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources forNineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121 John A. Walsh
7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century andContemporary Literature 139 Dirk Van Hulle
23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415 Ian Lancashire
24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434 Kenneth M. Price
25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature451 James Cummings
26 Algorithmic Criticism 477 Stephen Ramsay
27 Writing Machines 492 William Winder
28 Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies 517 David L. Hoover
29 The Virtual Library 534 G. Sayeed Choudhury and David Seaman
30 Practice and Preservation - Format Issues 547 Marc Bragdon, Alan Burk, Lisa Charlong, and Jason Nugent
31 Character Encoding 564 Christian Wittern
Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources 577 Tanya Clement and Gretchen Gueguen
Index 597
Rezensionen
"Once again Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman have produced a remarkable collection of writing about scholarship and resource creation in the area of digital humanities .... The companion provides a very thorough survey of research and resource development in numerous area of digital literary studies, written by an impressive collection of leading scholars." (The Review of English Studies)
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