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His and Lisa Samuels's notion of deformance has shaped my and many others' approaches to tagging and
My co-editor Rachel Price and I recently edited Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 translation of Whitman's
with the famous stepped indentations of "O Captain! My Captain!"
Years ago, when I used to hit a key on my old typewriter, I could follow and even explain the mechanical
Now, when I hit a key on my computer keyboard, my knowledge of the process that makes a letter appear
on my screen is hazy, to say the least, not to mention the process that transfers it to paper.
How this sentence I'm now writing gets preserved on my USB stick and in what form is a mystery to me.
If my rhetoric is, as Freedman suggests, "utopian," my experience in working on the archive is anything
Ken recommended that in preparation for my work I read the chapter of Guidelines for Electronic Text
imagining "gentle" to mean gradual and pleasant, as in "a gentle slope," so I pictured myself easing my
Though I found the "gentle introduction" daunting and more often blunt than gentle, by working my way
My experiences since those first days have only reinforced my initial impressions; as I've worked at
Perhaps a portion of my frustrations (and also insights) are the result of Ken's somewhat fortuitous
One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24
for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my
still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my
My thinking on a set of interrelated issues—what is it we should be editing?
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
Based on my experience with this project, it is a responsibility not quickly or easily met. developed
(I wouldn't be surprised, conversely, if my historian friends regard the as a long footnote on war-time
My own contribution will be an analysis of the Armory Square Hospital Gazette .
(This broad view of editing is one I endorse and underpins my remarks throughout this essay.)
In my view, specialists are less critical in transcription than in project conceptualization, annotation
after his claim to be "untranslatable": "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my
overstaid fraction" "the circle of obis" or, as Whitman says near the end of "Song of Myself": "I effuse my
Jeopardizes Degree by Refusing to Perform Whitman," The Chronicle of Higher Education 25 July 2013. 23 My
more audacious artistic uses of Whitman is the Flash animation " Walt Whitman " by performance artist My
One day in 1995 Charles Green and another graduate student, David Donlon, strolled into my office and
Susan Belasco, my colleague at the University of Nebraska, has made significant strides in presenting
My advice to Whitman scholars would be to hang on to your electronic rights.
This idea also appeals to me because of my academic place , the University of Nebraska.
Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my
See my "Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?"
At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles
In my view, Primary Source Media would have been much better off to use SGML, a recognized international
Iowa cooperated because my co-director, Ed Folsom, edits the journal and controls copyright.
He is my key—sometimes daily—intellectual consultant for the project.
The project has become central to my scholarly life (in that it has become the most time consuming and
important of my projects).
texts are becoming fundamentally or solely "literary-encoders" and "literary-librarians," then, despite my
He once said that "arose out of my life in Brooklyn and New York from 1838 to 1853, absorbing a million
ultimately is folded into the or remains a separate, stand-alone collection, it certainly grew out of my
After the publication of the 1881-1882 , Whitman remarked, "All this is not only my obligation to Henry
It should be noted that my view of differs here from that of some commentators.
Whitman in the early 1990s, and it took more than ten years and at least a thousand dollars to complete my
I have sometimes used the while working on scholarly essays when I am away from my home institution.
Whitman said to one of his early German translators: "It has not been for my country alone—ambitious
The final aim of the United States of America is the solidarity of the world One purpose of my chants
Most of my graduate students are still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction