Introduction Textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness

Fraistat, Neil; Flanders, Julia

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“…5 Textual critics have always required as an essential competency a 'heightened awareness of medium as a methodological question'. 6 Jerome McGann identifies a cognate literary tradition from William Blake and William Morris to Pound in which this 'bibliographical imagination' produces 'an extensive record of its own making'. 7 This essay explores how such a 'textual condition' is manifested in The Cantos, whereby the poem's self-conscious understanding of its media ecology may bring digital potentialities into sharper focus, and how its 'bibliographical imagination' might produce a viable intersection of digital media and philology.…”

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Bathtub philology: Ezra Pound’s annotative realism

Byron¹

2014

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He teaches and publishes across the genres and practices of Modernism: prose, poetry, drama, and film, as well as textual and editorial theory. His current work is in developing digital scholarly editions of complex Modernist texts and their manuscripts, including the Watt module of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. His work also deals with critical and theoretical reflection upon scholarly editing techniques. He is the author of Ezra Pound's Eriugena (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). Ezra Pound's call to 'Make It New' spoke a sense of compositional immediacy to his literary contemporaries by way of an ancient motto: the inscription the ancient Shang Dynasty Emperor Ch'eng T'ang (1766-1753 BCE) made on the side of his bathtub and immortalised more than a thousand years later in the Confucian Da Xue (The Great Learning): 薪日日薪 (xin ri ri xin). This is a timely phrase: Modernism Studies, like many areas of literary work, faces extraordinary challenges and opportunities in the digital shift taking place at the levels of textual studies, literary interpretation and literary theory. Pound's call for a cultural rinascimento demands not only that writers learn from the fullest range of venerable sources and traditions in the course of literary experimentation, but also that their readers sharpen an awareness as to how material forms of inscription directly shape the identity and meaning of texts. This challenge cuts across recent work in textual and manuscript studies, particularly in the representation of complex Modernist texts and their manuscripts (for example the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project).

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Bathtub philology: Ezra Pound’s annotative realism

Byron¹

2014

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Editing in the Academy: How Practice Is Taught and Studied

Greenberg

2018

A Poetics of Editing

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Digital Humanities and Qurʾanic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Space and Plural Views

Fedeli¹

2020

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This article aims at giving an overview of recent research projects carried out by the author in early Qurʾānic manuscripts applying digital tools -in terms of imaging processing, tagging of the text and phylogenetics -thus showing the methodological implications in digitally editing manuscripts and the feasibility of a collaborative space that displays data interpreted by several scholars. Methodology: In outlining previous and future projects in early Qurʾānic manuscripts, this article is based on and discusses the new epistemological approach offered by digital editing of Qurʾānic manuscript texts by using a mark-up language to encode and share editions. The mark-up and tagging of the text are not only instruments for achieving semiotic tasks but also represent and produce a separate semiotic dimension. Findings: This research endorses the theory of manuscript editions as a field of intelligently structured possibility that displays hypotheses and allows the reader to experience the manuscript transmission and debatedness of the text. Digital philology and analysis have been applied to some Qurʾānic manuscripts proving the advantages of freeing manuscripts' edition from the constraints of the linear, circumscribed and static page of the printed text thus offering a solution to the problem of rendering manuscript movement. Originality: This is a cutting-edge research in digital encoding and pioneer phylogenetic analysis of Qurʾānic manuscript texts. It demonstrates that the digital paradigm can offer a new epistemological approach in Qurʾānic manuscript studies through a platform that admits a great quantity of varied hypotheses and crossing boundaries. This offers a transnational and transcultural system, working with different operating systems in a plurality of transparently displayed data.

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Introduction Textual scholarship in the age of media consciousness

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Bathtub philology: Ezra Pound’s annotative realism

Bathtub philology: Ezra Pound’s annotative realism

Editing in the Academy: How Practice Is Taught and Studied

Digital Humanities and Qurʾanic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Space and Plural Views

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