Traces of the old, uses of the new : the emergence of digital literary studies / Amy E. Earhart.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Earhart, Amy E., 1969- author.

Contributor:

• Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

• Editorial theory and literary criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Literature and the Internet.
• Electronic publications.
• Literature--Computer network resources.
• Digital libraries.
• Hypertext systems.
• Literature.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in clearly defining Digital Humanities as a shared set of interdisciplinary practices and interests. Traces of the Old, Uses of the New focuses on twenty-five years of developments, including digital editions, digital archives, e-texts, text mining, and visualization, to situate emergent products and processes in relation to historical trends of disciplinary interest in literary study. By reexamining the roil of theoretical debates and applied practices from the last generation of work in juxtaposition with applied digital work of the same period, Earhart also seeks to expose limitations in need of alternative methods-methods that might begin to deliver on the early (but thus far unfulfilled) promise that digitizing texts allow literature scholars to ask and answer questions in new and compelling ways. In mapping the history of digital literary scholarship, Earhart also seeks to chart viable paths to its future, and in doing this work in one discipline, this book aims to inspire similar work in others. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 The Rationale of Holism: Textual Studies, the Edition, and the Legacy of the Text Entire 11
• 2 The Era of the Archive: The New Historicist Movement and Digital Literary Studies 38
• 3 What's In and What's Out?: Digital Canon Cautions 62
• 4 Data and the Fragmented Text: Tools, Visualization, and Datamining or Is Bigger Better? 90
• 5 Notes on the Future of Digital Literary Studies 117.

Notes:

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

• 9780472121311
• 9780472072781
• 0472072781

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access