Book Histories in the Digital Age: Challenges, Promises, Achievements
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Gabriele Rippl
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Ursula Lenker
Abstract
This special issue of Anglia addresses the wide-ranging transformations digitization has created in the field of book history. Several decades after the birth of Digital Humanities, the contributors to this special issue take stock of the challenges, promises and achievements of digital editing and cataloguing of medieval manuscripts. In addition, the articles discuss and assess the potential of computational methods, of big data and algorithms, of text mining techniques, stylometrics, multi-dimensional scaling and clustering, together with navigational tools such as scatterplots and dendrograms. The objects of investigation are both medieval manuscripts and newly digitized œuvres of modern writers such as Samuel Beckett, intermedial formats such as Alan Moore’s graphic novels and the online publication of a short story by Kristen Roupenian.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Book Histories in the Digital Age: Challenges, Promises, Achievements
- Holistically Modelling the Medieval Book: Towards a Digital Contribution
- Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
- Learning to Let Go: Ownership, Rights, Fees, and Permissions of Readers’ Photographs
- A New Age of Photography: ‘DIY Digitization’ in Manuscript Studies
- Habemus Corpora: Reapproaching Philological Problems in the Age of ‘Big’ Data
- Digitizing the Old English Anonymous and Wulfstanian Homilies through the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) Project
- The Reader at Large: A Computational Approach to London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.ii (Part One)
- Digitized Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation Praxes Mediated through Digital Technology
- Computing Literary Surplus Value: Alan Moore and the Density of the Comic Book as Graphic Novel
- Literary Reviewing and the Velocity of Book Histories in Times of Digitization
- Reviews
- Hans Sauer and Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp (eds.). 2020. Ihr werdet die Wahrheit erkennen / Ye shall know the truth: Zum Gedenken an den Philologen / In Memory of the Philologist Ewald Standop. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, x + 306 pp., 35 figures, 21 tables, € 35.00.
- Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). 2019. Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts. Anglia Book Series 67. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, viii + 377 pp., € 99.95/$ 114.99/£ 91.00.
- Arvind Thomas. 2019. “Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, xiv + 267 pp., $ 75.00.
- Monika Pietrzak-Franger. 2017. Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xiv + 338 pp., 17 illustr., € 117.69/£ 99.99/$ 139.99.
- Baylee Brits. 2017. Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction. New York/London: Bloomsbury, 224 pp., £ 85.00/$ 115.00.
- James Smith (ed.). 2019. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930 s. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 250 pp., £ 74.99.
- Ulla Rahbek. 2019. British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, vii + 224 pp., € 74.89.
- Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.). 2020. Narrative Factuality: A Handbook. Revisionen: Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie 6. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, ix + 780 pp., 3 illustr., 1 table, € 159.95/£ 145.50.
- Jonathan Senchyne. 2020. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 176, 10 illustr., $ 90.00.
- Maria Löschnigg and Melanie Braunecker (eds.). 2019. Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature. Nature, Culture and Literature 15. Leiden: Brill, xiv + 385 pp., € 132.00/$ 159.00.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Book Histories in the Digital Age: Challenges, Promises, Achievements
- Holistically Modelling the Medieval Book: Towards a Digital Contribution
- Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts
- Learning to Let Go: Ownership, Rights, Fees, and Permissions of Readers’ Photographs
- A New Age of Photography: ‘DIY Digitization’ in Manuscript Studies
- Habemus Corpora: Reapproaching Philological Problems in the Age of ‘Big’ Data
- Digitizing the Old English Anonymous and Wulfstanian Homilies through the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English (ECHOE) Project
- The Reader at Large: A Computational Approach to London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.ii (Part One)
- Digitized Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Self-Translation Praxes Mediated through Digital Technology
- Computing Literary Surplus Value: Alan Moore and the Density of the Comic Book as Graphic Novel
- Literary Reviewing and the Velocity of Book Histories in Times of Digitization
- Reviews
- Hans Sauer and Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp (eds.). 2020. Ihr werdet die Wahrheit erkennen / Ye shall know the truth: Zum Gedenken an den Philologen / In Memory of the Philologist Ewald Standop. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, x + 306 pp., 35 figures, 21 tables, € 35.00.
- Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). 2019. Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts. Anglia Book Series 67. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, viii + 377 pp., € 99.95/$ 114.99/£ 91.00.
- Arvind Thomas. 2019. “Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, xiv + 267 pp., $ 75.00.
- Monika Pietrzak-Franger. 2017. Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xiv + 338 pp., 17 illustr., € 117.69/£ 99.99/$ 139.99.
- Baylee Brits. 2017. Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction. New York/London: Bloomsbury, 224 pp., £ 85.00/$ 115.00.
- James Smith (ed.). 2019. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930 s. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 250 pp., £ 74.99.
- Ulla Rahbek. 2019. British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, vii + 224 pp., € 74.89.
- Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.). 2020. Narrative Factuality: A Handbook. Revisionen: Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie 6. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, ix + 780 pp., 3 illustr., 1 table, € 159.95/£ 145.50.
- Jonathan Senchyne. 2020. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 176, 10 illustr., $ 90.00.
- Maria Löschnigg and Melanie Braunecker (eds.). 2019. Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature. Nature, Culture and Literature 15. Leiden: Brill, xiv + 385 pp., € 132.00/$ 159.00.
