A Companion to Digital Literary 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

Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria; President of the Society for Digital Humanities; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, Siemens has authored numerous articles on the interconnection between literary studies and computational methods.

Susan Schreibman is Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries, University of Maryland College Park, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. She is the founding editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive and Irish Resources in the Humanities; has served on the Council of the TEI Consortium; and is currently on the Executive of the Association for Computers in the Humanities. In 1991, Schreibman authored the Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition and has published in the areas of Irish poetic modernism, digital editing and textual studies. She co-edited Blackwell’s A Companion to Digital Humanities with Ray Siemens and John Unsworth in 2004.

Notes on Contributors
Editor’s Introduction
Imagining the new media encounter
Literary Studies and the Tradition of Computing
ePhilology: When the books talk to their readers
Disciplinary impact and technological obsolescence in digital medieval studies
"Knowledge will be multiplied": Digital literary studies and early modern literature
Online resources for eighteenth-century literature in English and other European languages: image, text and hypertext
Multimedia and multitasking: a survey of digital resources for nineteenth-century literary studies
Hypertext and avant-texte in twentieth century and contemporary literature
Methods and Perspectives
Reading digital literature: surface, data, interaction, and expressive processing
Is there a text on this screen?: Reading in an era of hypertextuality
Reading on screen: the new media sphere
Electronic scholarly editions
The Text Encoding Initiative and the study of literature
Knowing true things by what their mockeries be: modelling in the humanities
Algorithmic criticism
Writing machines
Cybertextuality and philology
Quantative analysis and literary studies
Genres
Handholding, remixing, and the instant replay: new narratives in a postnarrative world
Too dimensional: literary and technical images of potentiality in the history of hypertext
Riddle machines: the history and nature of interactive fiction
Digital poetry: a look at generative, visual, and interconnected possibilities in its first four decades
Digital literary studies: performance and interaction
Licensed to play: digital games, player modifications, and authorized production

Private public reading: readers in digital literature installation
Representation, Practice, and Preservation
The Virtual Codex from page space to e-space
Digital and analogue texts
The Virtual Library
Fictional worlds in the digital age
Practice and preservation – format issues
Character encoding
Annotated bibliography: exemplary projects
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