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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827683903321

Autore

Whittaker Jason <1969-, >

Titolo

William Blake and the digital humanities : collaboration, participation, and social media / / Roger Whitson and Jason Whittaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-13575-4

1-283-94197-X

0-203-07806-3

1-135-13576-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; ; 14

Altri autori (Persone)

WhitsonRoger

Disciplina

821/.7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; William Blake and the Digital Humanities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Zoamorphosis and the Digital Humanities; 1 Archives and Ecologies; 2 The Tyger; 3 Jerusalem; 4 Digital Creativity: Teaching William Blake in the Twenty-First Century; 5 Blake and His Online Audiences; 6 Folksonomies and Machine Editing: William Blake's New Aesthetic on Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube; Coda: Dust and Self-Annihilation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

William Blake's work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake's work as a social and participatory network, a phenomenon described as zoamorphosis, which encourages - even demands - that others take up Blake's creative mission. The authors rexamine the history of the digital humanities in relation to the study