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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A Companion to Digital Literary Studies offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies. Through a series of specially commissioned articles by leading scholars, theorists, and writers creating born-digital literature, the text provides a thorough overview of the intersections between computing, literary studies, and new media. It takes a highly interdisciplinary perspective in its examination of scholarly editing and literary criticism, interactive fiction and gaming, multimedia and immersive environments, and born digital literature. This Companion is the only comprehensive collection of seminal works available to meet the needs of this growing area of inquiry. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand, use, or create digital literature. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
