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"Whatever else Shakespeare may be, his works stand as an exceptional problem for the idea of the straightforward transmitting and archiving of cultural texts, and the various responses to this problem reveal human insights of a different kind." (4) | "Whatever else Shakespeare may be, his works stand as an exceptional problem for the idea of the straightforward transmitting and archiving of cultural texts, and the various responses to this problem reveal human insights of a different kind." (4) | ||
"The Shakespearean Archive explores the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries, and asks why one finds Shakespeare so often associated with new information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself." (5) | |||
"This book offers a critical prehistory of digitization read through the technological afterlives of Shakespeare's complex and imperfect textual archive. In taking modern digitization as a point of departure for historical inquiry, I regard the present state of computing not as a given, but as the result of cultural investments that bestow value in some ways and withhold it in others." (5) |
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Galey, Alan.
Introduction: Scenes from the prehistory of digitization
"What role does Shakespeare play in this archive picture of culture memory, in the Victorian period but also within the more general scope of modernity that Nora considers? How does the preoccupation with archiving, as described by Derrida and Nora and embodied by Malone, shape the ways we understand represent Shakespeare's texts? This book explores these questions in ways that shed light not only on historical instances of Shakespearean archive fever, like Malone's variorum edition, but also on their connections with digital tendencies in the present. Shakespeare's texts give a habitation and a name to the specters of forgetting and loss that haunt any archival enterprise." (3)
"Whatever else Shakespeare may be, his works stand as an exceptional problem for the idea of the straightforward transmitting and archiving of cultural texts, and the various responses to this problem reveal human insights of a different kind." (4)
"The Shakespearean Archive explores the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries, and asks why one finds Shakespeare so often associated with new information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself." (5)
"This book offers a critical prehistory of digitization read through the technological afterlives of Shakespeare's complex and imperfect textual archive. In taking modern digitization as a point of departure for historical inquiry, I regard the present state of computing not as a given, but as the result of cultural investments that bestow value in some ways and withhold it in others." (5)