Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web

ISBN-13: 9780312293529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 292 str.

Jerome J. McGann

Opis

Jerome McGann has been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities. His pioneering critical projects on the World Wide Web have redefined traditional notions about interpreting literature. In this trailblazing book, McGann explores the profound implications digital media have for the core critical tasks of the humanities.Drawing on his work as editor of the acclaimed hypertext project "The Rossetti Archive," he sets the foundation for a new critical practice for the digital age. Digital media, he demonstrates, can do much more than organize access to great works of literature and art. Beyond their acknowledged editorial and archival capabilities, digital media are also critical tools of unprecedented power. In McGann’ s practical vision, digital tools give scholars a flexible, dynamic means for interpreting expressive works— especially those that combine text and image. "Radiant Textuality" demonstrates eloquently how new technologies can deepen our understanding of complex, multi-layered works of the human imagination in ways never before thought possible.

Spis treści

Beginning Again: Humanities and Digital Culture, 1993-2000 PART I: HIDEOUS PROGENY, ROUGH BEASTS: 1993-1995 The Alice Fallacy The Rationale of HyperText Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit Appendix to Part I Chapter 3 PART II: IMAGING WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW: 1995-1999 Deformance and Interpretation (with Lisa Samuels) Rethinking Textuality PART III: QUANTUM POETICS: 1999-2000 Visible and Invisible Books in N-Dimensional Space Appendix to Part III Chapter 1: 'What Is Text?' Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine. Beginning Again and Again: The Ivanhoe Game

O autorze

JEROME MCGANN has helped to define the central topics in literature, theory, and cultural studies for the past twenty years. He is one of the founding members of U. of Virginia's celebrated Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. His most recent books are Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (Yale UP 2000) and Byron and Wordsworth (Nottingham, 1999).