A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Schreibman, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405168064 ISBN 13: 9781405168069

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

A Companion to Digital Humanities This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. * Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. * Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Full description

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Review:

"Offers the best general introduction to this amorphous field." Literary Research Guide

"The book represents a turning point for the Digital Humanities by bringing together a wide range of expertise from both theorists and practitioners and demonstrating that this can be considered a field in its own right ... As an overview of a diverse field, [it] provides a detailed, useful introduction to how computational technologies have and may be appropriated, utilised and even innovated by humanities scholars." The Classical Review

About the Author:

Susan Schreibman is Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, a faculty member of the University of Maryland Libraries, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. Her recent publications include Computer-Mediated Discourse: Reception Theory and Versioning and ongoing work on the Thomas MacGreevy Archive. Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Formerly he was Professor of English at Malaspina University-College and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies , he is also editor of several Renaissance texts and coeditor of several collections on humanities computing topics. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is founding coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an e-journal, and founding Director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405168064
• ISBN 13: 9781405168069
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640