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Book SynopsisManuel Portela is Professor in the Department of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he directs the PhD Programme in Materialities of Literature. He is the author of
Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (MIT Press, 2013) and
O Comércio da Literatura: Mercado e Representação [The Commerce of Literature; Marketplace and Representation] (Antígona, 2003). He is the general editor of
LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet (https://ldod.uc.pt, 2017).
Trade ReviewDear reader, if you are a believer in the almighty virtues of the representational power of editions, if you are a true disciplinarian in textual matters, if you hold that knowledge validation in the digital humanities depends exclusively on quantitative criteria,
Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities is not for you. Or is it? * João Dionísio, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal *
Table of ContentsIncipit: Evolutionary Textual Environment 1. From Archive to Simulator 2. Reading as Simulation 3. Editing as Simulation 4. Writing as Simulation 5. Living on in the Web Explicit: No Problem Has a Solution Acknowledgments References Index
