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1. A brief history of textual computing
1949: Father Roberto Busa. Concordance to Aquinas.
Joseph Raben (1976): Raben, J., and D. V. Lieberman. "Text Comparison: Principles and a Program." The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Studies. A. Jones & R. F. Churchhouse. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976. 297-308.
Authorship studies: Federalist papers. Mosteller, F., and D. L. Wallace. "Deciding Authorship." Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, 2nd Ed. et al. J. M. Tanur. San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1978. 207-19.
Concordance and collocation methods: limitations and problems.
Small (1984); Fortier (1995); Van Peer (1989) -- to read.
Thesaurus methods: Regressive Imagery Dictionary. Martindale, Colin, "Evolutionary Trends in Poetic Style: The Case of English Metaphysical Poetry." Computers and the Humanities 18 (1984): 3-21. The Clockwork Muse (New York: Basic Books, 1990).
Problems: Potter, R. G. "Literary Criticism and Literary Computing: The Difficulties of a Synthesis." Computers and the Humanities 22 (1988): 91-97.
2. The Internet, hypertext
Hypertext first: 1980s, development of StorySpace; the first hypertext fictions, e.g., Michael Joyce, Afternoon (1987); Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden (1991).
But idea of hypertext goes back to Vannevar Bush, the Memex (1945). He influenced Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson (Xanadu).
Commercialization: cf. Golumbia (1996)
3. Library and the Internet
The crisis. Electronic media are the answer. To Libraries
Postscript.
Our English Department:
- to "mainstream" humanities computing in English curriculum
- development of MA in Humanities Computing
Document prepared January 11 2001 / Revised September 10th 2001