Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Editors’ Introduction xviii Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman
Part I Introduction 1
1 Imagining the New Media Encounter 3 Alan Liu
Part II Traditions 27
2 ePhilology: When the Books Talk to Their Readers 29 Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Jones
3 Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in Digital Medieval Studies 65 Daniel Paul O’Donnell
4 ‘‘Knowledge will be multiplied’’: Digital Literary Studies and Early Modern Literature 82 Matthew Steggle
5 Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext 106 Peter Damian-Grint
6 Multimedia and Multitasking: A Survey of Digital Resources for Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121 John A. Walsh
7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature 139 Dirk Van Hulle
Part III Textualities 161
8 Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing 163 Noah Wardrip-Fruin
9 Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality 183 Bertrand Gervais
10 Reading on Screen: The New Media Sphere 203 Christian Vandendorpe
11 The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space 216 Johanna Drucker
12 Handholding, Remixing, and the Instant Replay: New Narratives in a Postnarrative World 233 Carolyn Guertin
13 Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age 250 Marie-Laure Ryan
14 Riddle Machines: The History and Nature of Interactive Fiction 267 Nick Montfort
15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images of Potentiality in the History of Hypertext 283 Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts
16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation 301 Mark Leahy
17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, and Interconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318 Christopher Funkhouser
18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction 336 David Z. Saltz
19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications, and Authorized Production 349 Andrew Mactavish
20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369 Aimeè Morrison
Part IV Methodologies 389
21 Knowing . . . : Modeling in Literary Studies 391 Willard McCarty
22 Digital and Analog Texts 402 John Lavagnino
23 Cybertextuality and Philology 415 Ian Lancashire
24 Electronic Scholarly Editions 434 Kenneth M. Price
25 The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature 451 James Cummings
26 Algorithmic Criticism 477 Stephen Ramsay
27 Writing Machines 492 William Winder
28 Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies 517 David L. Hoover
29 The Virtual Library 534 G. Sayeed Choudhury and David Seaman
30 Practice and Preservation – Format Issues 547 Marc Bragdon, Alan Burk, Lisa Charlong, and Jason Nugent
31 Character Encoding 564 Christian Wittern
Annotated Overview of Selected Electronic Resources 577 Tanya Clement and Gretchen Gueguen
Index 597
