College Literature articles from January 2009

College Literature archives from January 2009

Introduction.
January 1, 2009... At first blush, it may seem that the pairing of Shakespeare and Information Technology is an odd one. That, we will find, has more to do with common misperceptions about the second item in the pairing than with any ontological truth. An...

Shakespeare's multiple metamorphoses: authenticity agonistes.(Essays)(William Shakespeare)
January 1, 2009... "Who's there?" This finally unresolved question, which opens Shakespeare's Hamlet and establishes the atmosphere of uncertainty that haunts the atmosphere of uncertainty that haunts the play, may well be asked of Shakespeare himself and the...

The Perseus Garner: early modern resources in the digital age.(Essays)
January 1, 2009... Digital humanities has long promised to change the way we teach and do research by making it faster and easier to discover relationships among texts and images in large, heterogeneous collections--so much faster and easier, its proponents say,...

Standing in rich place: electrifying the multiple-text edition or, every text is multiple.(Essays)
January 1, 2009... And therefore, like a cipher, Yet standing in rich place, I multiply With one "We thank you" many thousands more That go before it (The Winter's Tale 1.2.6-9) In his courtly compliment, Polixenes expresses an interestingly...

Signal to noise: designing a digital edition of the Taming of a Shrew (1594).(Essays)
January 1, 2009... Can this cock-pit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O pardon: since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And...

Shakespeare on the road: tracking the tours with the REED web project.(Essays)(William Shakespeare)(Records of Early English Drama)
January 1, 2009... Our title refers to a desire that has flourished for at least 150 years, to trace Shakespeare's activities as a theatre professional (actor, sharer, playwright) through the provincial boroughs and households that were visited by the companies...

"The web of our life is of a Mingled Yarn": the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare project, Humanities scholarship, and ColdFusion.(Essays)
January 1, 2009... 1. An Introduction to the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP) This essay presents an overview of some of the issues related to publishing the findings of a large-scale research project on Shakespeare, with an especial focus...

Behind the scenes with SHAKSPER: the global electronic Shakespeare conference.(Essays)
January 1, 2009... SHAKSPER, founded as an "academic" conference and now in its nineteenth year, is an international "electronic seminar" that enables ongoing discussion of all things Shakespearean. Three extended discussions exemplify SHAKSPER at its best. In...

The Shakespeare Dialogues:(Re)producing the Tempest in secondary and university education.(Essays)
January 1, 2009... From Digital to Dialogic Shakespeare In the 1990s, scholarly discussion of "digital Shakespeare" revolved primarily around the electronic reproduction of print materials. One has only to think of such sites as the now-defunct "Enfolded...

Interrogating the politics of post-9/11 academic freedom.
January 1, 2009... Much like freedom itself, academic freedom appears to be a concept that generates a superficial consensus (is anyone opposed to it?), only to give way to sharp divergences of opinion as soon as one enters into the philosophical, ideological,...

Hutson, Lorna. 2007. The invention of suspicion: law and mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $99.00 hc. 383 pp.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... We usually speak of casting suspicion or having it raised, but in these times when terrorism and counter-terrorism can be hard to distinguish, we have had to relearn what it means to invent suspicion. That there is a long history of individuals...

Saussy, Haun, ed. 2006. Comparative literature in an age of globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. $60.00 hc. $24.95 sc. xiii + 261 pp.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... As one of a series of decennial reports by the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization offers itself as a "report on the state of the discipline" in 2004; but unlike previous ACLA...

Newstok, Scott L., ed. 2007. Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare. West Lafayette, Indiana: parlor press. $65.00 hc. $32.00 sc. Iv + 308 pp.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... In Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare, Scott Newstok brings together all of the late Kenneth Burke's surprisingly voluminous Shakespearean criticism, including an appendix of references to Shakespeare in Burke's major works and, perhaps most...

Books received July 16 2008 to October 15,2008.(Appendix)
January 1, 2009... Arvidson, P. Sven. 2008. Teaching Nonmajors: Advice for Liberal Arts Professors. Albany: State University of New York Press. $53.50 hc. $17.95 sc. xiv + 98 pp. Baker, Brian. 2008. Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in...