Reimagining Textuality

Reimagining Textuality PDF Author: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Loizeaux and Fraistat (both teach English at the U. of Maryland) have edited a group of 14 papers that address contemporary approaches to the text. Among the issues and theories discussed are textual theory, postcolonialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, electronic use of text in art, and textualist art. The contributors teach poetry, English, comparative literature, French, art, Victorian media and culture, and communication design in the US, the UK, and France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reimagining Textuality

Reimagining Textuality PDF Author: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
Loizeaux and Fraistat (both teach English at the U. of Maryland) have edited a group of 14 papers that address contemporary approaches to the text. Among the issues and theories discussed are textual theory, postcolonialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, electronic use of text in art, and textualist art. The contributors teach poetry, English, comparative literature, French, art, Victorian media and culture, and communication design in the US, the UK, and France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reimagining Textuality

Reimagining Textuality PDF Author: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299173845
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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What happens when, in the wake of postmodernism, the old enterprise of bibliography, textual criticism, or scholarly editing crosses paths and processes with visual and cultural studies? In Reimagining Textuality, major scholars map out in this volume a new discipline, drawing on and redirecting a host of subfields concerned with the production, distribution, reproduction, consumption, reception, archiving, editing, and sociology of texts.

Publishing Blackness

Publishing Blackness PDF Author: George Hutchinson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472900994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study.

Text

Text PDF Author: W. S. Hill
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112722
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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The newest volume in the distinguished annual

SpecLab

SpecLab PDF Author: Johanna Drucker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226165094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia’s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists’ Books Online to the as yet unrealized ’Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker’s contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

Attack of the Difficult Poems

Attack of the Difficult Poems PDF Author: Charles Bernstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday life and its adversaries. Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art. Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself. Bernstein never loses his ingenious ability to argue or his consummate attention to detail. Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner. From blues artists to Tin Pan Alley song lyricists to Second Wave modernist poets, The Attack of the Difficult Poems sounds both a battle cry and a lament for the task of the language maker and the fate of invention.

Worlds Made Flesh

Worlds Made Flesh PDF Author: Lauryn Mayer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135877548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue.

The Torn Book

The Torn Book PDF Author: Jason Allen Snart
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575911090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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"The Torn Book: UnReading William Blake's Marginalia argues for the connection between British poet and painter William Blake's marginalia (the annotations he made in the volumes he owned and borrowed) and the role that often multivalent symbols like pens, writers, readers, and books play throughout his art." "The Torn Book pays particular attention to original Blake items, including the various annotated volumes housed at the Huntington Library, Houghton Library, Cambridge's University Library and Wren Library, Dr. Williams's Library, and the British Library, among others."--BOOK JACKET.

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley PDF Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1149

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Winner of the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipOutstanding Academic Title, Choice "His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude.” With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within “a new school of poetry rising of late.” The third volume of the acclaimed edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley includes Alastor, one of Shelley’s first major works, and all the poems that Shelley completed, for either private circulation or publication, during the turbulent years from 1814 to March 1818: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, Laon and Cythna, as well as shorter pieces, such as his most famous sonnet, Ozymandias. It was during these years that Shelley, already an accomplished and practiced poet with three volumes of published verse, authored two major volumes, earned international recognition, and became part of the circle that was later called the Younger Romantics. As with previous volumes, extensive discussions of the poems’ composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. Among the appendixes are Mary W. Shelley’s 1839 notes on the poems for these years, a table of the forty-two revisions made to Laon and Cythna for its reissue as The Revolt of Islam, and Shelley’s errata list for the same. It is in the works included in this volume that the recognizable and characteristic voice of Shelley emerges—unmistakable, consistent, and vital.

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship PDF Author: Neil Fraistat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110746949X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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As more and more of our cultural heritage migrates into digital form and as increasing amounts of literature and art are created within digital environments, it becomes more important than ever before for us to understand how the medium affects the text. The expert contributors to this volume provide a clear, engrossing and accessible insight into how the texts we read and study are created, shaped and transmitted to us. They outline the theory behind studying texts in many different forms and offer case studies demonstrating key methodologies underlying the vital processes of editing and presenting texts. Through their multiple perspectives they demonstrate the centrality of textual scholarship to current literary studies of all kinds and express the sheer intellectual excitement of a crucial scholarly discipline entering a new phase of its existence.