'Computing in Literary Studies'
A six-week course held at the English Faculty, St Cross Building. Aimed at
undergraduates and postgraduates of the English Faculty, but open to all
students.
General Reading list:
- Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,
1995- (University of Luton)
- W. Chernaik, M. Deegan, and A. Gibson. (eds.), Beyond the Book:
Theory, Culture, and the Politics of Cyberspace, OHC Publications 7
(Oxford: OHC, 1996).
- W. Chernaik, C. Davis, and M. Deegan (eds.), The Politics of the
Electronic Text, OHC Publications 3 (Oxford: OHC, 1993).
- Journal of Digital
Information - University of Southampton and OUP
- R. Lanham, The Electronic Word (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1994).
- G. Landow, Cyberspace,
Hypertext, and Hypermedia: An Overview
- G. Nunberg (ed.), The Future of the Book (Belgium: Brepols,
1996).
- K. Sutherland (ed.), Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and
Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
- Publications of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies, most notably their
Guide to Digital
Resources and their newsletter
Computers &
Texts.
- Resource Centre for Cyberculture
Studies
Course list:
- Dr Lee:'The Internet: The Death
of Publishing?' (31st Jan, 3pm, LT2, St Cross building).
- Dr Lee: 'Hypertext: The
Death of the Author?' (7th Feb, 3pm, Rm 11 St Cross building).
- Dr Lee: 'The Digital Library: The
Death of the Scholar?' (14th Feb, 3pm, Rm 11 St Cross building).
- Ms Wikander: 'The Afterlife of the Book: Editing for the Millennium' (21st
Feb, 3pm, LT2 St Cross building)
- Ms Wikander: 'The Afterlife of the Author: Text in the Electronic Age'
(28th Feb, 3pm, LT2 St Cross building)
- Ms Wikander: 'The Afterlife of the Scholar: The Future of Library Research'
(6th Mar, 3pm, LT2 St Cross building)
Discuss anything you have heard in these lectures on the
Carfax Bulletin Board under
the English section.
This lecture addresses the following points: cultural myths relating to the
computer; the place of the Internet in our society; the history of the Internet;
resources available for literary studies; the Web and its effects on literary
studies, what effect is it having on Publishing, and will some print-based
publications in future be delivered solely in electronic form?
Reading List
Printed Material
- J. Nielsen Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond
(Mountain view, CA, 1995) - A good introductory guide to the Web. Out of date
now somewhat put explains clearly some of the problems and solutions of using
such a large hypertext system.
- S. Lee, 'The Internet and the Humanities Scholar' in C. Mullings, M.
Deegan, S. Ross, and S. Kenna (eds.) New Technologies for the Humanities
(London: Bowker-Saur, 1996), pp. 426-41.
On-Line Resources
- AltaVista - the best search
engine for the Web. Allows you to search almost every page published. See also
HUMBUL's quick and easy
list of search engines.
For the really dedicated look at the
overall guide to searching the Web. To see how people are actually searching
the Internet look at SearchTicker
or Voyeur.
- T. Berners-Lee, 'The Web - Past, Present, and Future' in
JODI Vol 1.1
- A Bigger Place to
Play (or Text, Knowledge and Pedagogy in the Electronic Age) - A site
containing interesting articles looking at the pedagogical impacts of the
electronic age.
- G. McKiernan,
Morning
Becomes ElectricPost-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and
Navigation
- D. Kovac's Directory of Scholarly
and Professional E-Conferences - allows you to search for an e-mail
discussion list of your choice.
- Citing Resources - if you wish to see ways of citing electronic resources
see the APA and MLA guidelines,
or a Brief Citation Guide.
- The
Geography of Cybersapce - a brave attempt to bring an element of cartography
to the Internet.
- Instructor's Guide to
Plagiarism on the Internet - a guide to lecturers on how and where students
might plagiarise essays via the Internet.
- Internet
Courses - on-line teaching packages to learn about all aspects of using the
Internet.
- Internet
Glossary - Explains all of the jargon.
- Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication
- Twenty-Four Hours in Cyberspace - if
you are interested in exactly how people use the Internet, this site catalogues
one day in the life of the Net in February, 1996.
- 'Unofficial' History
of the Internet - tells you exactly how it all began., plus the W3
History of the Web. If you wnt to feel
retro then go to the Netscape
Archive Centre which houses all the old browsers.
- Voice of the Shuttle
- the best set of literary links around.
Publish and Be Damned!
This lecture will address the areas of hypertext and hypermedia. It will
look at: the difference between hypertext, hypermedia, and multimedia; the
development of the area; hypertext theory; literature and hypertext.
Reading List
Printed Resources
- Delaney, P., and Landow, G. (eds.) Hypermedia and Literary Studies
(Cambridge, Mass., 1991).
- D. Greetham, Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (New York,
1992) - See the appendix on the types of editions.
- Holland, P. 'Authorship and Collaboration: The Problem of Editing' in
Politics of the Electronic Text (see above).
- Landow, G., Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical
Theory and Technology (London, 1992).
- Landow, G. (ed.) Hyper/Text/Theory (London, 1994) - esp. E.
J. Aarseth's 'Nonlinearity and Literary Theory', pp. 51-86.
- Nielsen, J. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond
(Boston, 1995).
- Nelson, T., Literary Machines (self-published, 1981).
- Pickering, J., 'Hypermedia: When will they feel natural?' in Beyond
the Book (see above).
- Sutherland, K. 'Looking and Knowing: Textual Encounters of a Postponed
Kind' in Beyond the Book (see above).
Online Resources
- Berners-Lee, T., and Caulliau, R.,
'World-Wide Web
Proposal for a Hypertext Project' CERN, 1990.
- Bush, V. 'As We May
Think' Atlantic Monthly 176 (July, 1945), pp. 101-08.
- Tosca, S. 'Otras
Reuniones' - extremely good list of pages related to Hypertext
- Janet Murray's 'Hamlet on the
Holodeck'
- Wendy Morgan's 'Replacing
Authority by Desire: Novices Reading and Writing Literary Hypertext'
- Hyperzons: Theory and
Criticism of Hypertext Fiction
- Eastgate - pioneering company that
has been promoting Hypertext Fiction since 1982; see their
Reading Room, and the
Cutting Edge series of articles
- Hyperfiction
Reading List (C Gruyer)
- Postmodern
Theory, Culture Studies and Hypertext (Tom Goldpaugh's list)
- Yahoo's
Directory of Hypertext Fiction
- New Media Fiction - part of
the Internet Public Library
Read them and weep?
Hypertext Fiction
This lecture will look at the digital library, what goes into it, how is it
constructed, what possibilities are offered by it and how may it change the
percecption of scholarly activity and the term 'a scholar' itself?
Printed Material
- ONLINE & CD-ROM Review and The Electronic Library
- two journals, both available from the CHC or at
http://www.learned.co.uk
- P. Robinson The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources (OHC,
1993) - still the best introduction to digitization
On-Line Resources
Examples
Page created by Dr Stuart D. Lee on 24/1/00. This is an updated version of the reading list from last year's course.
