Literary simulation and the digital humanities : reading, editing, writing / Manuel Portela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portela, Manuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and technology.

Literature--Research--Data processing.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Summary:

"How can we use digital media to understand reading, editing, and writing as literary processes? How can we design the digital medium in a way that goes beyond the printed codex? This book is an attempt to answer those fundamental questions by bringing together a new theory of literary studies with a highly dynamic digital environment. Using the digital archive of the modernist masterpiece Book of Disquiet, by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), as case study and site for simulation and practical experiment, Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities demonstrates how computational approaches to texts can fully engage with the complexities of contemporary literary theory. Manuel Portela marshals a unique combination of theoretical speculation, literary analysis, and human imagination in what amounts to a significant critical intervention and a key advance in the use of digital methods to rethink the processes of reading and writing literature. The foregrounding of the foundational practices of reading, editing, and writing will be relevant for several fields, including literary studies, scholarly editing, software studies, and digital humanities."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Incipit: 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501385377

1501385372

9781501385407

1501385402

9781501385414

1501385410

OCLC:

1281795338