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<p>Created page with &#039;McGann, Jerome. &quot;Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine: Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading.&quot; &#039;&#039;Computers and …&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>McGann, Jerome. &quot;Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine: Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading.&quot; ''Computers and the Humanities'' 36.1 (February 2002): 95-107.<br /> <br /> :&quot;What ''is'' text? I am not so naive as to imagine that question could ever be finally settled. Asking such a question is like asking 'How long is the coast of England?'. But now we have to ask it again because when the questino was re-posed by our digital culture, the humanities response proved inadequate: on one hand a reactionary refusal to admit that this new culture had any right to ask such a question (Sven Birkerts); on the other, the emergence of TEI and the proposal that its view of text would serve the interests of humanities scholars for digital culture.&quot; (96)<br /> <br /> :&quot;A page of printed or scripted text should thus be understood as a certain kind of graphic interface. The complexity of the interface varies from a minimal use of the bibliographical codes open to a given paperspace -- the text you are now reading is a good instace of such simplicity -- to highly elaborated interfaces like those determined as poetic texts.&quot; (100)</div>

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