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Title: Traces of the Old, Uses of the New Condition: New Subtitle: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies Author: Amy E. Earhart Format: Hardback EAN: 9780472072781 ISBN: 9780472072781 Publisher: The University of Michigan Press Genre: Literary Criticism Topic: Computing & Internet Release Date: 30/11/2015 Description: 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 defining Digital Humanities as a clear, 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 allows 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 432g Book Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?
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