Literature (Foreign) – Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities https://mith.umd.edu Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:37:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 Joanna Swafford Digital Dialogue https://mith.umd.edu/dialogues/dd-spring-2017-joanna-swafford/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:30:28 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/?post_type=mith_dialogue&p=18155 Although poetry is often treated as silent print on the page, this talk details how digital tools can augment poetry’s aural and performed dimensions. The talk presents three such digital projects: Songs of the Victorians, an archive and analysis of musical settings of famous Victorian poems, Augmented Notes, a tool for creating digital scores [...]

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Although poetry is often treated as silent print on the page, this talk details how digital tools can augment poetry’s aural and performed dimensions. The talk presents three such digital projects: Songs of the Victorians, an archive and analysis of musical settings of famous Victorian poems, Augmented Notes, a tool for creating digital scores synched with audio, and Sounding Poetry, a visualization tool for analyzing poetry recitations.

See below for a Storify recap of this Digital Dialogue, including live tweets and select resources referenced by Swafford during her talk.

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]]> James English Digital Dialogue https://mith.umd.edu/dialogues/dd-fall-2015-james-english/ Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:00:52 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/?post_type=mith_dialogue&p=14788 Scholars of contemporary fiction face special challenges in making the turn toward digitized corpora and empirical method. Their field is one of exceptionally large and uncertain scale, subject to ongoing transformation and dispute, and shrouded in copyright. I will present one possible way forward, based on my work for a special issue of Modern Language [...]

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Scholars of contemporary fiction face special challenges in making the turn toward digitized corpora and empirical method. Their field is one of exceptionally large and uncertain scale, subject to ongoing transformation and dispute, and shrouded in copyright. I will present one possible way forward, based on my work for a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on “Scale & Value” that I’m co-editing with Ted Underwood. My project uses quantitative relationships among mid-sized, hand-made datasets to map the field of Anglophone fiction from 1960 to the present. Some significant findings of this research concern a shift in the typical time-setting of the novel and a concomitant change in the relationship between literary commerce and literary prestige.

See below for a Storify recap of this Digital Dialogue, including links to resources and projects that English referenced during his talk.

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]]> A Dictionary, A Database, A Desultory Reader: Metaphors for the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Literature https://mith.umd.edu/dialogues/a-dictionary-a-database-a-desultory-reader-metaphors-for-the-mind-in-eighteenth-century-literature/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/?post_type=mith_dialogue&p=4139 Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Virginia, explores the topic of text-mining through his research in the use of language and metaphor in eighteenth-century British literature.

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]]> Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Virginia, explores the topic of text-mining through his research in the use of language and metaphor in eighteenth-century British literature.

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