A new republic of letters : memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction

Publication Data

• Title A new republic of letters : memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction
• Author Jerome J. McGann
• Publisher Harvard University Press
• Publication date 2014
• Publication location Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Language English

Contents

Part I. From history to method
Why textual scholarship matters
"The inorganic organization of memory"
Memory : history, philosophy, philology
Part II. From theory to method
The documented world
Marking texts in many dimensions
Digital tools and the emergence of the social text
Part III. From method to practice
What do scholars want?
Philological investigations I : the example of Poe
Philological investigations II : a page from cooper
Conclusion: Pseudodoxia academica, or, Literary studies in a global age.

Topics

• Humanities :: Research
• Humanities :: Study and teaching
• Memory :: Social aspects
• Learning and scholarship :: Social aspects
• Communication in learning and scholarship :: Technological innovations
• Digital media :: Social aspects
• Internet :: Social aspects
• Globalization :: Social aspects
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A new republic of letters : memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction by Jerome J. McGann. ISBN 9780674728691. Published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.