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Indexing In Memoriam Assignment
- Author(s):
- Rachel Sagner Buurma
- Editor(s):
- Natalie M. Houston
- Date:
- 2020
- Item Type:
- Course Material or learning objects
- Tag(s):
- DPiH, DPiH Text Analysis, DPih Course Material or learning objects, Practice, Student agency, Digital pedagogy, Play
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/xs93-fj74
- Abstract:
- Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: The origin of humanities computing is usually dated to 1949, when Father Roberto Busa began working with IBM computers to produce a concordance to the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Hockey). Of course, concordances and indexes long predate electronic computers and, as Geoffrey Rockwell suggests, are premised upon hermeneutical assumptions of coherence and generative rule-bound procedures (Rockwell 211). The index is thus another example of “digital” or “hands-on” technology that expands beyond the electronic. Rachel Sagner Buurma’s assignment asks students to create an index to Tennyson’s In Memoriam or to use an existing index to create a new edition of the poem, foregrounding how informational technologies like the index create, constrain, or complicate the interpretation of literary works.
- Notes:
- This deposit is part of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K. Gold, Katherine D. Harris, and Jentery Sayers, and published by the Modern Language Association. https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
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