The development of digital technology and its widespread availability on the personal computer are bringing about a fundamental paradigm shift in the ways that literary texts are created, preserved, disseminated, and studied--a revolution that many scholars have argued is as profound as that created by Gutenberg's invention of movable type. At the same time, a major shift in textual theory--away from the notion of a "Definitive Edition" and toward a recognition of the integrity of discrete versions--has highlighted the fundamental limitations of the printed book. The Literary Text in...
The development of digital technology and its widespread availability on the personal computer are bringing about a fundamental paradigm shift in the ...
Before the technology of print, every book was unique. Two manuscripts of the "same" text could package and transmit that text very differently, depending on the choices made by scribes, compilers, translators, annotators, and decorators. Is it appropriate, Elizabeth Bryan asks, for us to read these books as products of a single author's consciousness? And if not, how do we read them? In Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture, Bryan compares examples from the British Library Cotton Otho C.xiii manuscript of La3amon's Brut, the early thirteenth-century verse...
Before the technology of print, every book was unique. Two manuscripts of the "same" text could package and transmit that text very differently, depen...
"It is with no desire or hope to promote a correct or superior form of textuality, with no desire to correct a so-called interpretive or editorial textual abuse, nor any attempt to prevent anyone from doing anything imaginable with texts or books that I have undertaken this book. . . ." So writes Peter Shillingsburg in his introduction to this series of meditations on the possibilities of deriving "meaning" from the texts we read. Shillingsburg argues that as humans we are and always will be interested in the past, in what was meant, in what was revealed inadvertently by a text--and that...
"It is with no desire or hope to promote a correct or superior form of textuality, with no desire to correct a so-called interpretive or editorial tex...
Tim Hunt s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac s work from a new critical perspective with a focus on the author s unique methods of creating and working with text. Additionally, The Textuality of Soulwork delineates Kerouac s development of Spontaneous Prose to differentiate the preliminary experiment of On the Road from the more radical experiment of Visions of Cody, and to demonstrate Kerouac s transition from working within the textual paradigm of modern print to the textual paradigm of secondary orality....
Tim Hunt s The Textuality of Soulwork: Jack Kerouac s Quest for Spontaneous Prose examines Kerouac s work from a new critical perspective wi...
"Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age"is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author s selected works or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the author. In"Proofs of Genius," Amanda Gailey argues that...
"Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age"is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an edit...
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. InTraces of the Old, Uses ofthe New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in defining Digital Humanities as a shared set of interdisciplinary practices and interests. Traces of the Old, Uses of the...
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics,...