English and Comp

English & Comp. Lit. 841, Humanities Computing and Digital Editing
Spring 2008 Tues. 6:00-8:30 Greenlaw 302 jsviscom@email.unc.edu, http://english.unc.edu/faculty/viscomij.html http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/841/syllabus.html	Joseph Viscomi office GL 504 office hrs. T 1-2 & by appt. 962-8764

Course Description:

This seminar will begin with readings in the history and theories of textual criticism and editing before examining in some detail the theories and practice of editing visual and verbal texts in a multi-media digital environment. Students will research and evaluate major humanities projects, such as the Rossetti Archive, Whitman Archive, and Blake Archive, construct a hypertext resource site or database in a field of interest, and learn the practical skills and tools necessary to produce an electronic edition of a text that can be further developed beyond the seminar, or transform an earlier essay or project into a multi-media and/or hypertext work. Students can collaborate on projects. Knowledge of digitizing images and texts, encoding languages, or web design is NOT a requirement; we will have a technical expert in the class to teach these skills and to assist students in creating their websites.

expectations:

annotated bibliography of class readings

evaluation of a digital humanities project for class

a meta resource site in one’s field

a critical hypertext edition of a text—poem, letter, manuscript, section from a novel or play, or an earlier thesis or essay of your own—and its presentation to class

Texts:

An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies, third edition,

Williams, William Proctor and Craig S. Abbott, MLA, 1999.

ISBN: 9780873522670 ($18)

Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Burnard, Lou, Katherine O'Brien

O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006

ISBN 9780873529716 (paperback, $28)

(online at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/Preview/index.xml)

A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004; paperback, feb. 2008.

(online at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ )

McGann, Jerome. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1983; second edition, 1992.

Tanselle, Thomas. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989; second edition, 1992.

Resource Site on Hypertext Theory, Textual Criticism, and Scholarly Editing at http://sites.unc.edu/viscomi/841/

1/15 Introduction

1/22 Textual Criticism

1/29 Textual Criticism

2/5 Rossetti Archive

2/12 Editing Blake

2/19 Blake Archive

2/26 Digital Publishing: guest lecturers, Natasha Smith and Hugh Cayless, of Carolina Digital Library and Archives

3/4 Whitman Archive: guest lecturer, Charlie Green, AVP of IT, UNC

3/18 ibiblio.org: guest lecturer, Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org

3/25 oral reports: demonstrations of resource sites and evaluations of digital projects

4/1 oral reports: demonstrations of resource sites and evaluations of digital projects

4/8 Teaching with IT: guest lecturer, Daniel Anderson, Dept. of English and Comp. Lit

4/15 Special ACLS reports on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Scholarly Publishing

4/22 Final projects: demonstrations

1/15 Introduction: Expectations and Possibilities

1/22 Textual Criticism

Modern Language Association, Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions (2007) 

Includes: Guiding Questions for Vetters of Scholarly Editions

Glossary of Terms Used in the Guiding Questions

Annotated Bibliography: Key works in the Theory of Textual Editing

(also in Electronic Textual Editing, 23-49).

MLA’s CSE: Aims and Services of the Committee on Scholarly Editions

Greg, W. W. “The Rationale of Copy-Text.” Studies in Bibliography, Volume 3 (1950-1951): 19-36.

Greetham, D. C. "Textual Scholarship." Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literature. (New York: MLA, 1992): 103-137 (spec. attention to bib). PDF

Tanselle, Thomas. "The Varieties of Scholarly Editing." Greetham, D. C. ed. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. New York: MLA, 1995: 9-32. PDF

Williams, William Proctor and Craig S. Abbott, An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies, MLA, third edition, 1999, Chapters 1, 5, reference bib for textual criticism, 131-35.

Textual Criticism in Wikipedia.

1/29 Textual Criticism

Tanselle, Thomas. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989; second edition, 1992.

McGann, Jerome. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1983; second edition, 1992; esp. Chs. 1-3, 5-7.

Lernout, Geert. “Anglo-American Textual Criticism and the Case of Hans Walter Gabler's Edition of Ulysses.” Genesis 9 (1996): 45-65.

Harris, Neil. Analytical bibliography: an alternative prospectus. “Editing Texts,” from Institute D'Histoire du Livre

Optional

Greetham, D. C. “Criticizing the Text: Textual Criticism.” Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1994): 295-346. PDF

-----. “Editing the Text: Scholarly Editing.” Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1994): 347-372. PDF

Shillingsburg, Peter L. “Practical Effects,” “Copy-Texts and Apparatuses” from Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. Third edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 103-119. PDF

2/5 Rossetti Archive

McGann, Jerome. “Imagining What You Don't Know: The Theoretical Goals of The Rossetti Archive.” (1997) ADHO.

-----. “Marking Texts of Many Dimensions.” A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 198- 217.

-----. “Radiant Textuality.” (1996) ADHO.

-----. “The Rationale of Hypertext.” (1995) ADHO. Also Sutherland 19-46.

-----. "Rethinking Textuality." (nd) ADHO.

-----. "The Rossetti Archive and Image-Based Electronic Editing." The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 145-183.

Potter, P. Aaron. "Centripetal Textuality." Victorian Studies (Summer 1998): 593-619.

2/12 Editing Blake, The William Blake Archive

Cooper, Andrew and Michael Simpson. "The High-Tech Luddite of Lambeth: Blake's Eternal Hacking." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (Summer 1999): 125-31. PDF

-----. "Looks Good in Practice, But Does it Work in Theory? Rebooting the Blake Archive." Wordsworth Circle 31.1 (Winter 2000): 63-68. PDF

Johnson, Mary Lynn. "The Iowa Blake Videodisc Project: A Cautionary History." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (Summer 1999): 131-5. PDF

Kroeber, Karl. "The Blake Archive and the Future of Literary Studies." Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (Summer 1999): 123-5. PDF

Eaves, Morris and Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. “Standards, Methods, Objectives of the William Blake Archive: A Response to Mary Lynn Johnson, Andrew Cooper, and Michael Simpson.” Wordsworth Circle 30.3 (Summer 1999): 135-44.

Eaves, Morris and Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. "The William Blake Archive: The Medium when the Millenium is the Message." Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed. Tim Fulford. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 219-33.

Eaves, Morris and Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, and Matthew Kirschenbaum. “The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive." RLG DigiNews 4.1 (February 2000).

Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. “Editorial Principles: Methodology and Standards in the Blake Archive.” WBA, April 15, 2005.

Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. “Plan of the William Blake Archive.” WBA, Updated 2006.

Eaves, Morris. “Behind the Scenes at the William Blake Archive: Collaboration Takes More Than E-mail.” (1997) (ADHO)

2/19 William Blake Archive

Jones, Stephen E. "The William Blake Archive: An Overview." Literature Compass 3.3 (February 2006): 409-416.  

Tanselle, Thomas. "Critical Editions, Hypertexts, and Genetic Criticism." (Manuscript)

" ‘Once Only Imagined’: An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the Past, Present, and Future of Blake Studies." Conducted by Kari Kraus. Romantic Circles.

Eaves, Morris. "Crafting Editorial Settlements." Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (2006).

-----. "'Why Don't They Leave It Alone?' Speculations on the Authority of the Audience in Editorial Theory." Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning. Ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 85-99. PDF

-----. "Graphicality: Multimedia Fables for 'Textual' Critics." Fraistat, Neil, and Elizabeth Bergmann Loiseaux, eds. Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002: 99-122. PDF

-----. “Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 210-223.

Viscomi, Joseph. "Digital Facsimiles: Reading the William Blake Archive." Computers and Humanities 36.1 (2002): 27-48.

Kiernan, Kevin. “Digital Facsimiles in Editing.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 262-269.

2/26 Digital Publishing at Carolina: Doc South, Epidoc

Forward and Introduction. Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 1-21.

Willett, Perry. “Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

Case, Mary, and David Green. "Rights and Permissions in an Electronic Edition," Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 346-370.

Unsworth, John. "Electronic Scholarship; or, Scholarly Publishing and the Public." The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 233-24. PDF

Vanhoutte, Edward. “An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium” (2004) ADHO.

Lavagnino, John. “When not to use TEI.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006:

Renear, Allen H. "Text Encoding." Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 218-239.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "Classification and its Structures." A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 161-176.

Optional:

Siemens, Raymond. “The Credibility of Electronic Publishing” (2000) ADHO

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "Textual Criticism and the Text Encoding Initiative." The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 37-61. PDF

3/4 Whitman Archive

Fraistat, Neil, and Steven Jones. “ The Poem and the Network: Editing Poetry Electronically.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 105-121.

Price, Kenneth M. "Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive" (2001).

Folsom, Ed. "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives." PMLA 122.5 (2007): 1571-1579. PDF

O'Donnell, William H., and Emily A. Thrush. "Designing a Hypertext Edition of a Modern Poem." The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 193-212. PDF

Lamont, Claire. "Annotating a Text: Literary Theory and Electronic Hypertext." Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. Ed. Kathryn Sutherland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 47-66. PDF

Buzzetti, Dino, and Jerome McGann. “Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon.” Electronic Textual Editing. Eds. Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and John Unsworth. MLA, 2006: 53-73.

Ross, Charles L. "The Electronic Text and the Death of the Critical Edition." The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. 225-231. PDF

Vanhoutte, Edward. “ Where is the editor? Resistance in the creation of an electronic critical edition” (1999) ADHO

Optional: literary theory and textual criticism

McGann, Jerome J. "Literary Pragmatics and the Editorial Horizon." Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory. Ed. Philip Cohen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. 1-21. PDF

Shillingsburg, Peter. "The Autonomous Author, the Sociology of Texts, and the Polemics of Textual Criticism." Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory. Ed. Philip Cohen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. 22-43. PDF

Howard-Hill, T. H. "Variety in Editing and Reading: A Response to McGann and Shillingsburg." Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory. Ed. Philip Cohen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. 44-56. PDF

Gabler, Hans Walter. "Unsought Encounters." Devils and Angels: Textual Editing and Literary Theory. Ed. Philip Cohen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. 152-166. PDF

3/18 Humanities Computing and ibiblio.org

Besser, Howard. “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

Orlandi, Tito. “Is Humanities Computing a Discipline?” (2002) ADHO.

McCarty, Willard. “Humanities Computing.” (2002) ADHO.

“The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction.” A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

Hockey, Susan. "The History of Humanities Computing," A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 3-19.

Abram, Kathern. “Electronic Textuality, a bibliographic essay.” MANTEX.

Unsworth, John. "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?" (2002) ADHO.

Landow, George P. "Reconfiguring the Text." Hypertext. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 35-78. PDF

Toschi, Luca. "Hypertext and Authorship." The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 169-208. PDF

3/25 oral reports: demonstrations of resource sites and evaluations of digital projects

readings to be assigned by students

Smith, Martha Nell. “Electronic Scholarly Editing.” A Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004: 306-322.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “’So the Colors Cover the Wires’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

4/1 oral reports: demonstrations of resource sites and evaluations of digital projects

readings to be assigned by students

Ess, Charles. “'Revolution? What Revolution?' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

4/8 Teaching with IT

Kolker, Robert. “Digital Media and the Analysis of Film.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

Jensen, Michael. “Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

video about student work and fair use: http://thoughtpress.org/daniel/node/83

student-annotated text: http://www.futureofthebook.org/danielanderson/occurrence/

Unsworth, John. “Second-Generation Digital Resources in the Humanities” (2000) ADHO.

Smith, Catherine F. "Hypertextual Thinking." Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning With Technology. Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994. 264-281. PDF

Dobrin, David N. "Hype and Hypertext." Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning With Technology. Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994. 305-315. PDF

Warwick, Claire. “Print Scholarship and Digital Resources.” Companion to Digital Humanities. Eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Blackwell Publishing, 2004:

4/15 Special Reports

Vanhoutte, Edward. “The Value of Mentoring: Young Scholars in IT and the Humanities” (2003) ADHO.

Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences; http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/Cyberinfrastructure.RLG.html

Unsworth, John, Carlos J. Alonso, Cathy N. Davidson, Lynne Withey. Crises and Opportunities: The Futures of Scholarly Publishing. American Council of Learned Societies. ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 57 (2003).

Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion

Unsworth, et al.

4/22 Demonstration of Final Projects