Jerome McGann has been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities. His pioneering critical projects on the World Wide Web have redefined traditional notions about interpreting literature. In this trailblazing book, McGann explores the profound implications digital media have for the core critical tasks of the humanities.Drawing on his work as editor of the acclaimed hypertext project The Rossetti Archive, he sets the foundation for a new critical practice for the digital age. Digital media, he demonstrates, can do much more than organize access to great works of literature and art. Beyond their acknowledged editorial and archival capabilities, digital media are also critical tools of unprecedented power. In McGann’s practical vision, digital tools give scholars a flexible, dynamic means for interpreting expressive works—especially those that combine text and image. Radiant Textuality demonstrates eloquently how new technologies can deepen our understanding of complex, multi-layered works of the human imagination in ways never before thought possible.
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'McGann provides ample chapter notes and a good bibliography with references to both paper and online sources. His work will be useful to graduate students and faculty interested in the possibilities technology creates for the study of literature.' - G.A. Mayer, SUNY College at Oneonta 'Radiant Textuality is a bold attempt to rethink text and interpretation in the digital age. Reading his book is certainly a game worth playing for anyone interested in literature and textual editing after the World Wide Web. Not just for the insights on specific problems of digital editing, but also for his brilliant defence of permutational forms of criticism.' - Manuel Portela, Comparative Critical Studies
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Jerome McGann is a leading scholar in fields ranging from 18th century to contemporary literature to the theory of textuality.
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia, and founding fellow of UVA's Institute for Advanced.
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia, and founding fellow of UVA's Institute for Advanced.
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1993: The year of the emergence of W3 involved a crucial moment of intersection with my own work, although at the time I was scarcely aware of the connections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inner standing point, bibliographical codes, quantum poetics, humanities computing, scholarly editing, digital tools, humanities scholars, textual condition, discourse field, alphanumeric text, critical editing, theoretical pursuit, modern textual criticism, digital culture, codex form, computerized tools, beholds nothing, vital words, textual field, textual works, reading backward Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Humpty Dumpty, Emily Dickinson, Spencer Brown, Henry Mills Alden, Paradise Lost, The Rationale of Hypertext, Piers Plowman, The Blake Archive, The Ivanhoe Game, The Snow Man, William Blake, Adobe Photoshop, Grecian Urn, Clarendon Press, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Five Book, Lisa Samuels, Mark Reed, Rough Beasts, The Alice Fallacy New!
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Humpty Dumpty, Emily Dickinson, Spencer Brown, Henry Mills Alden, Paradise Lost, The Rationale of Hypertext, Piers Plowman, The Blake Archive, The Ivanhoe Game, The Snow Man, William Blake, Adobe Photoshop, Grecian Urn, Clarendon Press, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Five Book, Lisa Samuels, Mark Reed, Rough Beasts, The Alice Fallacy New!
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- Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 7 pages
- Piers Plowman (Norton Critical Editions) by William Langland on 5 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 4 pages
- The Early Italian Poets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on 4 pages
- My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts by Peter L. Shillingsburg on page 143, and Back Matter
- Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web by Daniel Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama by Lukas Erne on page 222
- The Book as Artefact: Text and Border (Variants 4) by Anne Mette Hansen; Roger LĂ1/4deke; Wolfgang Streit; Cristina UrchueguĂa; Peter Shillingsburg on page 138
- New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (Cultural Perception of Shakespeare) by Thomas Cartelli in Back Matter
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