A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

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 DigitalMedieval 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 forNineteenth-Century Literary Studies 121
John A. Walsh
7 Hypertext and Avant-texte in Twentieth-Century andContemporary Literature 139
Dirk Van Hulle
Part III Textualities 161
8 Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, andExpressive Processing 163
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
9 Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era ofHypertextuality 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 Narrativesin 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 InteractiveFiction 267
Nick Montfort
15 Too Dimensional: Literary and Technical Images ofPotentiality in the History of Hypertext 283
Belinda Barnet and Darren Tofts
16 Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital LiteratureInstallation 301
Mark Leahy
17 Digital Poetry: A Look at Generative, Visual, andInterconnected Possibilities in its First Four Decades 318
Christopher Funkhouser
18 Digital Literary Studies: Performance and Interaction336
David Z. Saltz
19 Licensed to Play: Digital Games, Player Modifications, andAuthorized Production 349
Andrew Mactavish
20 Blogs and Blogging: Text and Practice 369
Aime´e 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 Literature451
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