Digital Humanities

"What is (or are) the “digital humanities,” aka “humanities computing”? It’s tempting to say that whoever asks the question has not gone looking very hard for an answer. “What is digital humanities?” essays like this one are already genre pieces.' Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. (2010) What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments? ADE Bulletin. Retrieved 23 March 2022,https://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf

It guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, & creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, & electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students & scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, & skeptical observers continue to see literature & the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. It argues that digital & traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, & investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.

Words that Count -- What Questions? -- The Digital Humanities and Its Discontents -- What Has Digital Literary Studies Ever Done for Us? -- 1. Authors and Writing -- How Is an Author? -- Distance and Depth -- Strategies of Self-Consciousness and Context -- The Work of Computational Writing -- Textual Practice as Social Undertaking -- 2. Space and Visualization -- The Treachery of Images -- Turning the Tables -- Digital Concrete -- 3. Maps and Place -- Body Language -- Questions from Grasmere -- Talking Points -- Literary Geography -- 4. Distance and History -- Digital Material History -- Challenging Assumptions -- Genre and Gender

ia volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists & scholars who have contributed to its birth & evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, it takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH), that is, as an area of scholarship & practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic. The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism & building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression & screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. It regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, & finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature."

It publishes scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, & textual resources. Topics include, but are not limited to Textual Analysis, Computational Stylistics/Stylometry, Text Encoding, Computational Linguistics, Digital Resources, Publishing, Topic Modeling, Network Analysis, Electronic Literature, Critical Theory, & Literary Games.

n open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. It is a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to: experimenting with publication formats & the rhetoric of digital authoring co-publishing articles with Literary & Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide using open standards to deliver journal content developing translation services & multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO. It publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed materials, including: scholarly articles, case studies, & field reports, editorials & provocative opinion pieces, experiments in interactive media, reviews of books, web sites, new media art installations, digital humanities systems and tools.

MLA International Bibliography & other databases will provide citations & links to articles on digital history. One can use interlibrary loan to obtain any articles we don' town.

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