How can text analysis tools enable researchers to study the relationships between texts? In an earlier post, I speculated about the relevance of such tools for understanding “literary DNA”–how ideas are transmitted and remixed–but as one reader observed, intertextuality is probably a more appropriate way of thinking about the topic. In my dissertation, I argue [...]
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My work has been so all-consuming lately that it feels like THAT Camp was months rather than a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to offer a few observations about THAT Camp before they go completely stale. Like many others, I found THAT Camp much more satisfying than the typical academic conference, since [...]
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This weekend I’m at THAT Camp, which is bringing together programmers, librarians, funding officers, project managers, mathematicians, historians, philosophers, literary scholars, linguists, etc. to discuss the digital humanities. Sponsored by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, THAT CAMP is an un-conference, which means that ideas for sessions emerged [...]
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