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A C O M P A N I O N T O
D L
IGITAL ITERARY
S
TUDIES
EDITED BY
RAY SIEMENS AND SUSAN SCHREIBMAN
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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A Companion to Digital Literary Studies
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Thisseriesofferscomprehensive,newlywrittensurveysofkeyperiodsandmovements
and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes
providenewperspectivesandpositionsoncontextsandoncanonicalandpost-canonical
texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the
experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as
pioneeredanddevelopedbyleadingscholarsinthefield.
64. ACompaniontoTwentieth-CenturyUnitedStatesFiction EditedbyDavidSeed
65. ACompaniontoTudorLiterature EditedbyKentCartwright
66. ACompaniontoCrimeFiction EditedbyCharlesRzepkaandLeeHorsley
67. ACompaniontoMedievalPoetry EditedbyCorinneSaunders
68. ANewCompaniontoEnglishRenaissanceLiteratureandCulture EditedbyMichaelHattaway
69. ACompaniontotheAmericanShortStory EditedbyAlfredBendixenand
JamesNagel
70. ACompaniontoAmericanLiteratureandCulture EditedbyPaulLauter
71. ACompaniontoAfricanAmericanLiterature EditedbyGeneJarrett
72. ACompaniontoIrishLiterature EditedbyJuliaM.Wright
73. ACompaniontoRomanticPoetry EditedbyCharlesMahoney
74. ACompaniontotheLiteratureandCultureoftheAmericanWest EditedbyNicolasS.Witschi
75. ACompaniontoSensationFiction EditedbyPamelaK.Gilbert
76. ACompaniontoComparativeLiterature EditedbyAliBehdadandDominicThomas
77. ACompaniontoPoeticGenre EditedbyErikMartiny
78. ACompaniontoAmericanLiteraryStudies EditedbyCarolineF.Levanderand
RobertS.Levine
79. ANewCompaniontotheGothic EditedbyDavidPunter
80. ACompaniontotheAmericanNovel EditedbyAlfredBendixen
81. ACompaniontoLiterature,Film,andAdaptation EditedbyDeborahCartmell
82. ACompaniontoGeorgeEliot EditedbyAmandaAndersonand
HarryE.Shaw
83. ACompaniontoCreativeWriting EditedbyGraemeHarper
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A C O M P A N I O N T O
D L
IGITAL ITERARY
S
TUDIES
EDITED BY
RAY SIEMENS AND SUSAN SCHREIBMAN
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Contents
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
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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 Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay:
New Narratives in a Postnarrative World 233
Carolyn Guertin
13 Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age 250
Marie-Laure Ryan
14 Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction 267
Nick Montfort
15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality
in the History of Hypertext 283
Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts
16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation 301
Mark Leahy
17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected
Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318
Christopher Funkhouser
18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction 336
David Z. Saltz
19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications,
and Authorized Production 349
Andrew Mactavish
20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369
Aime´e Morrison
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Contents vii
Part IV Methodologies 389
21 Knowing...: Modeling in Literary Studies 391
Willard McCarty
22 Digital and Analog Texts 402
John Lavagnino
23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415
Ian Lancashire
24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434
Kenneth M. Price
25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature 451
James Cummings
26 Algorithmic Criticism 477
Stephen Ramsay
27 Writing Machines 492
William Winder
28 Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies 517
David L. Hoover
29 The Virtual Library 534
G. Sayeed Choudhury and David Seaman
30 Practice and Preservation – Format Issues 547
Marc Bragdon, Alan Burk, Lisa Charlong, and Jason Nugent
31 Character Encoding 564
Christian Wittern
Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources 577
Tanya Clement and Gretchen Gueguen
Index 597
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Notes on Contributors
Editors
Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of
English at the University of Victoria. He is President (English) of the Society for
Digital Humanities / Soci´et´e pour l’´etude des me´dias interactifs, Visiting Senior Research
FellowattheCentreforComputingintheHumanitiesatKing’sCollegeLondon,and
Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital
HumanitiesSummerInstitute,andfoundingeditoroftheelectronicscholarlyjournal
EarlyModernLiteraryStudies,heisalsoauthorofworkschieflyfocusingonareaswhere
literary studies and computational methods intersect, is editor of several Renaissance
texts,isseriesco-editorofTopicsintheDigitalHumanities(UniversityofIllinoisPress)
and is co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among
them the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and Mind Technologies
(University of Calgary Press, 2006).
Susan Schreibman is Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research
at University of Maryland Libraries. She received her PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature
and Drama from University College Dublin (1997). She is the founding editor of
TheThomasMacGreevyArchive,IrishResourcesintheHumanities,andprincipledeveloper
ofTheVersioningMachine.SheistheauthorofCollectedPoemsofThomasMacGreevy:An
Annotated Edition (1991), co-editor of A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell,
2004),co-translatorof Siete poetasnorteamericanas (1991);and co-serieseditor of Topics
in the Digital Humanities (University of Illinois Press).
Contributors
David Bamman is a computational linguist for the Perseus Project at Tufts
University, focusing especially on natural language processing for Latin. David
received a BA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Applied
