Engl 701 (Spring 2009)

ENGL 701 March 25, 2009

The Change in Literary Scholarship
“ We no longer have to use books to analyze and study other books or texts”
- Jerome McGann in “The Rationale of Hypertext” (par. 6)

Textual Enhancements
Digitized Gutenberg Bible
The Complete Maus
Dracula Blogged
Digital Frankenstein ( collation example )
Facsimile Edition Critical Edition Critical Archive

Digital Environments are
Procedural
Participatory
Spatial
Encyclopedic
From Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck

Intermediation
“ the meaning of information is given by the process that interprets it”
(Katherine Hayles in Electronic Literature , p.52)

One version of Beirut’s “Nantes”

Another version of Beirut’s “Nantes”

If Shakespeare had a hard drive…
What would we know?

Database Culture
Collections of individual items, all treated equally
No default sequence
Data can be manipulated, extracted, searched, reconfigured, visualized, mined, etc.

Textual Tranformations
Wordcount ( http:// www.wordcount.org )
We Feel Fine ( http:// www.wefeelfine.org )
The Whale Hunt ( http:// thewhalehunt.org / )
Wordle ( http://www.wordle.net/ )
(using Dracula )
TextArc ( http:// textarc.org/Hamlet.html )
Tapor ( http:// portal.tapor.ca /portal/portal )

Most common 365 words in Moby-Dick (via http://www.steamthing.com/2008/06/jellyfish.html and Wordle.net)

Peer Review and Publishing
Digital Publishing ( University of Michigan Press )
Collaborative Peer Review ( Expressive Processing by Noah Wardrip-Fruin)

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