Electronic Text

TRAMA

The electronic presentation of text has revolutionized the understanding and use of literary evidence. Formerly, readers and editors were obliged to choose one edition of a text in book form to work with and to treat other versions as ancillary. Now electronic editions of a text can incorporate all the various versions and revisions. This allows unconstrained access to a much greater range of information. This collection considers the role of computerized technology in contributing to the interpretation and editing of texts, from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors investigate the ways in which the treatment of texts and the idea of a "text" are affected by current and prospective advances in electronic production and reproduction.

NOTE EDITORE

Since the 1950s, when Roland Barthes re-expressed the formalist ideal of an open-ended text, there has been much interest among literary critics and theorists of text in the question of what text is and what it gives us access to. The computer storage and electronic dissemination of texts adds a new controversy to the debate: what is the significance of the electronic text for the representation and transmission of knowledge? In its functions as multi-text storer and in its capacity to weave, unweave, and reweave text, the computer lends itself to a variety of later twentieth-century theoretic and cultural practices, from the decomposing strategies of deconstructive criticism to the date-dense contextualism of criticisms of postmodernism, coming from new historicism, cultural anthropology, and post-Marxism. The contributors to this book examine the impact of electronic technology on literary and textual studies. They ask how the computer is being used to reshape ideas of text, of authorship, of a literary canon, of authenticity and value as embodied in the edited work. They combine approaches from literary theory, the philosophy of text, feminist theory, and textual criticism. Topics include interactive Shakespeare, the poetry of Laetitia Landon, Mark Twain and hypertext, and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction 2 - The Rationale of Hypertext 3 - Annotating a Text: Literary Theory and Electronic Hypertext 4 - Lighting Out for the Territory: Hypertext, Ideology, and Huckleberry Finn 5 - Out of Praxis: Three (Meta)Theories of Textuality 6 - The Body Encoded: Questions of Gender and the Electronic Text 7 - New Directions in Critical Editing 8 - Digital Archive as Expanded Text: Shakespeare and Electronic Textuality 9 - Coda: Is it Morphin' Time?

AUTORE

She is also Director of Project Electra, an electronic textbase of women's writings in English.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198236634
• Dimensioni: 243 x 19.0 x 162 mm Ø 524 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 256