Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"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)
Table of ContentsNotes 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
