The book you have just opened is probably unlike anything you have ever read so far. It offers you a path to direct contact with "The Art of War", the masterpiece of Sun Tzu, a classical theorist of warfare in Ancient China. This book examines an ancient Chinese work on strategy…
Incipit: Evolutionary Textual Environment -- From Archive to Simulator -- Reading as Simulation -- Editing as Simulation -- Writing as Simulation -- Living on in the Web -- Explicit: No Problem Has a Solution. "Offers a new general theory of the processes of reading, editing an…
"Offers a new general theory of the processes of reading, editing and writing based on groundbreaking work in the digital humanities"--
"Offers a new general theory of the processes of reading, editing and writing based on groundbreaking work in the digital humanities"--
From Parchment to Cyberspace argues the case for studying high-resolution digital images of original manuscripts to analyze medieval literature. By presenting a rigorous philosophical argument for the authenticity of such images (a point disputed by digital skeptics) the book il…
Introduction : why I wrote this book -- Technologies of the medieval book: the manuscript matrix. What is a manuscript culture? -- Materiality and mimesis : anatomy of an illusion -- No fool of time : the paradox of manuscript transmission -- Technologies of manuscript knowledge…
From Parchment to Cyberspace argues the case for studying high-resolution digital images of original manuscripts to analyze medieval literature. By presenting a rigorous philosophical argument for the authenticity of such images (a point disputed by digital skeptics) the book il…
From Parchment to Cyberspace argues the case for studying high-resolution digital images of original manuscripts to analyze medieval literature. By presenting a rigorous philosophical argument for the authenticity of such images (a point disputed by digital skeptics) the book il…
Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as 'reading machines' to open up entirely new possibilities for literary …