This article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more]

This article is a print rendition of a web-based experimental publication which reflects upon and at the same time is itself an example of performative publishing. A performative publication wants to explore how we can bring together and align more closely the material form of a publication with its content. Making use of hypothes.is software, the…[Read more]

This chapter explores the cut-up as an active, affirmative and performative technique; a critical intervention in the production of language and human subjectivity. It examines historical uses of cut-up methods, from the collages and cut-up works of the Dadaists and the Beat writers, back to the early modern practice of commonplacing books. It…[Read more]

Shakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]

This article investigates how Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche’s ideas and Wagner’s music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author’s own particular sexual politics. The novel is an experimental text striving to be a Gesemtkunstswerk, an integrated work that incorporates music, pa…[Read more]

Companion materials for “Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom,” also available on Humanities Commons.

From the original paper presentation: In this paper I discuss the figurative language used in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks with a particular focus on the figures and symbols associated with food and food practices. This paper performs a textual analysis of figurative language and symbols and the themes of food and food practices to reveal the…[Read more]

This paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) is a Marie Sk odowska-Curie EU-Funded 7th Framework Programme. During the grant period (2013- 2017), twelve Early Stage Research Fellows and five Experi- enced Research Fellows engage with questions and tensions surrounding the evolving theory and practices of digital scholarly…[Read more]

After illustrating the challenges and opportunities of different models of encoding sequentiality in genetic editions, this paper will demonstrate how the BDMP transcribes its genetic materials in view of visualizing their sequentiality in the edition’s ‘Synoptic Sentence View’ (see ‘Figure 1’). The paper will conclude by presenting an example o…[Read more]

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) is a Marie Sk odowska-Curie EU-Funded 7th Framework Programme. During the grant period (2013- 2017), twelve Early Stage Research Fellows and five Experi- enced Research Fellows engage with questions and tensions surrounding the evolving theory and practices of digital scholarly…[Read more]

Within the field of genetic criticism, Raymonde Debray Genette coined the terms ‘en- dogenesis’ and ‘exogenesis’ to denote respectively the writing of drafts and the interaction with external source texts during the writing process. The proposed panel focuses on the ways in which exogenesis and its relationship with endogenesis can be given s…[Read more]

After illustrating the challenges and opportunities of different models of encoding sequentiality in genetic editions, this paper will demonstrate how the BDMP transcribes its genetic materials in view of visualizing their sequentiality in the edition’s ‘Synoptic Sentence View’ (see ‘Figure 1’). The paper will conclude by presenting an example o…[Read more]

This demo presentation will offer an interactive demonstration of the website ‘Lexicon of Scholarly Editing’ (www.uantwerpen.be/lexicon-scholarly-editing), a digital resource that collects definitions of important concepts in the field of Textual Criti- cism. Based on the WordPress infrastructure, the author built the Lexicon as part of his wor…[Read more]

This poster will offer an interactive demonstration of the second module of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) – an international collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp, the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research C…[Read more]

Within the field of genetic criticism, Raymonde Debray Genette coined the terms ‘en- dogenesis’ and ‘exogenesis’ to denote respectively the writing of drafts and the interaction with external source texts during the writing process. The proposed panel focuses on the ways in which exogenesis and its relationship with endogenesis can be given s…[Read more]