English Literature and Languages

blog: The Puzzle Box, Chapter 7

One of the reasons I'm publishing this story in monthly instalments is because I reviewed a Flash-animated comic called "Broken Saints" a couple of years ago (see http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewbrokensaints.php). [read more...]

centre: Humanities Research Institute (HRI)

Link to project
Institution: 
University of Sheffield
Director: 
David Shepherd
About the centre:

The award-winning Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield is one of the leading providers of research and development services for the digital Arts and Humanities. With over 16 years experience, our mission is to support the innovative use of technology within Arts and Humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. [read more...]

image: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800

Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800

Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800 aims to create a digital archive of manuscript and printed sources concerning the lives of ordinary people in eighteenth-century London, focusing on poor relief, criminal justice, and medical care.

Fig 1. William Hogarth, 'Arrested for Debt', Plate IV, The Rake's Progress, (1735), reproduced courtesy of Tim Hitchcock

event: Fall Institute in Digital Libraries and Humanities

25/09/2008
27/09/2008
Europe/London

At the University of New Brunswick
Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts

Cost: $300.00

Agenda:
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Thursday September 25th
- Open Journal Systems (OJS) for electronic journal management
- Institutional Repositories

Friday September 26th
- XML for journal articles
- XML for primary source texts [read more...]

image: still from the animation for Reconstructing Mayakovsky

still from the animation for Reconstructing Mayakovsky

art: Pelin Kirca
art direction and story: Illya Szilak
music: Itir Saran

blog: Reconstructing Mayakovsky: a novel of the future

I invite you to explore the website for a new novel Reconstructing Mayakovsky.

http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com

Set
in the future, the novel revisits the past to make
sense of the chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the
Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of
thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy [read more...]

blog: The Puzzle Box, Chapter 6 (and other items of interest)

Torsten Reimer, who runs this site, was suggesting that rather than just publicise The Puzzle Box I ought to write a word or two about what I'm trying to achieve with it and why it might be interest to student of the new media/hyperliterature field. [read more...]

image: Yggrdasil image

Yggrdasil image

event: Oxford Summer School: XML, TEI and beyond

21/07/2008
23/07/2008
Europe/London

Join us at OUCS this summer for two workshops organized by the
Research Technologies Service. During the week July 21st to 25th, the
TEI team at Oxford is once again offering special training in text
encoding principles and techniques. This year we have two workshops:

* XML, TEI, and beyond: July 21st-23rd 2008

This three-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version [read more...]

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