A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

This __Companion__ offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. * A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies * Includes the seminal writings from the field * Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation * Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs * The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography Imagining The New Media Encounter -- Ephilology : When The Books Talk To Their Readers -- Disciplinary Impact And Technological Obsolescence In Digital Medieval Studies -- Knowledge Will Be Multiplied : Digital Literary Studies And Early Modern Literature -- Eighteenth-century Literature In English And Other Languages : Image, Text, And Hypertext -- Multimedia And Multitasking : A Survey Of Digital Resources For Nineteenth-century Literary Studies -- Hypertext And Avant-texte In Twentieth-century And Contemporary Literature -- Reading Digital Literature : Surface, Data, Interaction, And Expressive Processing -- Is There A Text On This Screen? Reading In An Era Of Hypertextuality -- Reading On Screen : The New Media Sphere -- The Virtual Codex From Page Space To E-space -- Handholding, Remixing, And The Instant Replay : New Narratives In A Postnarrative World -- Fictional Worlds In The Digital Age -- Riddle Machines : The History And Nature Of Interactive Fiction -- Too Dimensional : Literary And Technical Images Of Potentiality In The History Of Hypertext -- Private Public Reading: Readers In Digital Literature Installation -- Digital Poetry : A Look At Generative, Visual, And Interconnected Possibilities In Its First Four Decades -- Digital Literacy Studies : Performance And Interaction -- Licensed To Play : Digital Games, Player Modifications, And Authorized Production -- Blogs And Blogging : Text And Practice -- Knowiing-- : Modeling In Literary Studies -- Digital And Analog Texts -- Cybertextuality And Philology -- Electronic Scholarly Editions -- The Text Encoding Initiative And The Study Of Literature -- Algorithmic Criticism -- Writing Machines -- Quantitative Analysis And Literary Studies -- The Virtual Library -- Practice And Preservation -- Format Issues -- Character Encoding -- Annotated Overview And Selected Electronic Resources. Edited By Ray Siemens And Susan Schreibman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments.

• A complete overview exploring the application of computing in literary studies
• Includes the seminal writings from the field
• Focuses on methods and perspectives, new genres, formatting issues, and best practices for digital preservation
• Explores the new genres of hypertext literature, installations, gaming, and web blogs
• The Appendix serves as an annotated bibliography