Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Project Essays

Theoretical, speculative, and documentary essays written by IATH fellows and staff about IATH projects and the issues they raise, or about electronic scholarship and culture more generally.

• Ed Ayers, (The Valley of the Shadow) - "The Augusta Archive"
  
  
• Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann, ("The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive") "Images as the Text. Pictographs and Pictographic Logic"
  
  
• Hoyt Duggan, (Piers Plowman Electronic Archive) - "Some Un-Revolutionary Aspects of Computer Editing"
  
  
• Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, (The William Blake Archive) - "The William Blake Archive: Editorial Principles: Methodology and Standards in the Blake Archive"
  
  
• Ed Folsom (The Walt Whitman Archive) - "Projecting Whitman: The Evolution and Remediation of The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman"

• Jerome McGann, ("The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive")
  
  
• Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality
• Jerome McGann, Radiant Textuality Literature after the World Wide Web
• Jerome McGann, The Rationale of HyperText
• Jerome McGann, "Comp[u/e]ting Editorial F[u/ea]tures"
• Jerome McGann and Lisa Samuels, "Deformance and Interpretation"
• Jerome McGann, "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine. Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading"
• Jerome McGann, "Imagining What You Don't Know: The Theoretical Goals of the Rossetti Archive"
• Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker, "The Ivanhoe Game: An Introduction"
• Jerome McGann, "Rethinking Textuality"
• Jerome McGann, "Visible and Invisible Books: Hermetic Images in N-Dimensional Space"
  
  
• Kenneth M. Price, (The Walt Whitman Archive)
  
  
  • Kenneth M. Price Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
  • Kenneth M. Price and Brett Barney "What I Assume You Shall Assume": The Whitman Archive and the Challenge of Integrating Different Open Standards
    
    
    
• Martha Nell Smith, (Dickinson Electronic Archive)
  
  
  • Martha Nell Smith, "The Importance of a Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work,"
    The Emily Dickinson Journal IV.1 (1995)
  • Martha Nell Smith, "A Hypermedia Archive of Dickinson's Creative Work",
    Part II: Musings on The Screen and The Book," The Emily Dickinson Journal V.2 (1996)
  • Martha Nell Smith, "Because the Plunge from the Front Overturned Us" : The Dickinson Electronic Archives Project Studies in the Literary Imagination 32:1 (Spring 1999).

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