A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

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 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

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 the Long Room Hub Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the School of English. Previously she was the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, a national digital humanities centre developed under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy (2008-2011); Assistant Dean for Digital Collections and Research , University of Maryland Libraries (2005-2008); and Assistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (2001-2005). Dr Schreibman is the Founding Editor of The Thomas MacGreevy Archive, Irish Resources in the Humanities, and The Versioning Machine. She is the co-editor Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), and the author of Collected Poems of Thomas MacGreevy: An Annotated Edition (1991). She is the founding editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

"Once again Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman have produced a remarkable collection of writing about scholarship and resource creation in the area of digital humanities ... The companion provides a very thorough survey of research and resource development in numerous area of digital literary studies, written by an impressive collection of leading scholars." ( The Review of English Studies )

"Once again Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman have produced a remarkable collection of writing about scholarship and resource creation in the area of digital humanities .... The companion provides a very thorough survey of research and resource development in numerous area of digital literary studies, written by an impressive collection of leading scholars." ( The Review of English Studies )