03532nam a22005175i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100007700220245012900297250001800426264007900444300006400523336002600587337002600613338003600639347002400675490003600699505034400735520139201079650003102471650003102502650001302533650002502546650003802571650001602609650003102625650002402656650002802680650003402708650002202742710003402764773002602798776003602824776003602860776003602896830003602932856004602968978-3-031-56000-2DE-He21320251030112248.0cr nn 008mamaa240601s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315600027 a10.1007/978-3-031-56000-22doi 4aPN1-6790 7aDSB2bicssc 7aLAN0000002bisacsh 7aDSB2thema1 aChristie, Alex.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aModern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanitiesh[electronic resource] :bPaper Processors /cby Alex Christie.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 195 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aMaterial Modernisms,x2661-82810 a1. Introduction -- Part I. Analog: Dreams of a Lost Past -- 2. Writing Rules: Raymond Roussel’s Impressions -- 3. Writing Time: Marcel Proust’s Optics -- Part II. Digital: Anxious in the Now -- 4. Calculating Humans: Samuel Beckett’s Encipherment -- 5. The Medium in Sight: Mina Loy’s Vision -- 6. Conclusion: Humanities Computing.  aWhile text processing is often associated with the digital humanities, it is still seen as worlds apart from literary modernism and its aesthetic preoccupations. This book upsets that narrative. Examining literary manuscripts from some of the twentieth century's best-known and lesser-known novelists, from Marcel Proust to Mina Loy, Alex Christie reveals where authors experimented with proto-digital writing methods by hand. Instead of looking to computers as sources of inspiration, the authors discussed turned to twentieth-century media for their ability to reveal new layers of the material world. From analog fantasies of contacting the dead to digital anxieties of invisible information, the aesthetic ambitions of these novels can be traced back to their author's interest in emerging media devices and their technical operation. To capture the magic of such devices through writing, these authors devised radical methods for generating literary text, anticipating today's digital humanities. Alex Christie is Associate Professor of Digital Prototyping at Brock University's Department of Digital Humanities, Canada. He has published in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and Reading Modernism with Machines; he co-edited American Science Fiction Television and Space; his digital projects include z-axis research and Pedagogy Toolkit. 0aLiterature and technology. 0aMass media and literature. 0aFiction. 0aCreative nonfiction. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aLiterature.14aLiterature and Technology.24aFiction Literature.24aNon-Fiction Literature.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aLiterary Methods.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303155999008iPrinted edition:z978303156001908iPrinted edition:z9783031560026 0aMaterial Modernisms,x2661-828140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56000-2