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A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

Ray Siemens (Edited by), R Siemens (Author), Susan Schreibman (Edited by)

9781118492277, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 17 May 2013

640 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3 cm, 0.966 kg

"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)

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

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 Digital Medieval 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 for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121

John A. Walsh

7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature 139

Dirk Van Hulle

Part III Textualities 161

8 Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing 163

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

9 Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality 183

Bertrand Gervais

10 Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere 203

Christian Vandendorpe

11 The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space 216

Johanna Drucker

12 Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World 233

Carolyn Guertin

13 Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age 250

Marie-Laure Ryan

14 Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction 267

Nick Montfort

15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext 283

Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts

16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation 301

Mark Leahy

17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318

Christopher Funkhouser

18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction 336

David Z. Saltz

19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications, and Authorized Production 349

Andrew Mactavish

20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369

Aimée Morrison

Part IV Methodologies 389

21 Knowing : Modeling in Literary Studies 391

Willard McCarty

22 Digital and Analog Texts 402

John Lavagnino

23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415

Ian Lancashire

24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434

Kenneth M. Price

25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature 451

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

Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]

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