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The Shakespearean archive : experiments in new media from the Renaissance to postmodernity / Alan Galey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139629201
  • 1139629204
  • 9781316073070
  • 1316073076
  • 9781316075432
  • 1316075435
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespearean archiveDDC classification:
  • 822.3/3 23
LOC classification:
  • PR2965 .G35 2014eb
Other classification:
  • LIT004120
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: scenes from the prehistory of digitization -- 2. Leaves of brass: Shakespeare and the idea of the archive -- 3. The archive and the book: information architectures from folio to variorum -- 4. The counterfeit presentments of Victorian photography -- 5. Inventing Shakespeare's voice: early sound transmission and recording -- 6. Networks of deep impression: Shakespeare and the modern invention of information -- 7. Data and the ghosts of materiality -- Conclusion: sites of Shakespearean memory.
Summary: "Why is Shakespeare so often associated with information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself? Alan Galey explores this question through the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries. In chapters dealing with the archive, the book, photography, sound, information, and data, Galey analyses how Shakespeare became prototypical material for publishing experiments, and new media projects, as well as for theories of archiving and computing. Analysing examples of the Shakespearean archive from the seventeenth century to today, he takes an original approach to Shakespeare and new media that will be of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, archives, and media history. Rejecting the idea that current forms of computing are the result of technical forces beyond the scope of humanist inquiry, this book instead offers a critical prehistory of digitisation read through the afterlives of Shakespeare's texts"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Why is Shakespeare so often associated with information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself? Alan Galey explores this question through the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries. In chapters dealing with the archive, the book, photography, sound, information, and data, Galey analyses how Shakespeare became prototypical material for publishing experiments, and new media projects, as well as for theories of archiving and computing. Analysing examples of the Shakespearean archive from the seventeenth century to today, he takes an original approach to Shakespeare and new media that will be of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, archives, and media history. Rejecting the idea that current forms of computing are the result of technical forces beyond the scope of humanist inquiry, this book instead offers a critical prehistory of digitisation read through the afterlives of Shakespeare's texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index.

1. Introduction: scenes from the prehistory of digitization -- 2. Leaves of brass: Shakespeare and the idea of the archive -- 3. The archive and the book: information architectures from folio to variorum -- 4. The counterfeit presentments of Victorian photography -- 5. Inventing Shakespeare's voice: early sound transmission and recording -- 6. Networks of deep impression: Shakespeare and the modern invention of information -- 7. Data and the ghosts of materiality -- Conclusion: sites of Shakespearean memory.

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