Digital (In)Humanities: Re-reading Digital Archives as a Form of Cultural Expression

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dc.contributor.advisorNell Smith, Marthaen_US
dc.contributor.authorDinin, Aaronen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-06T05:33:45Z
dc.date.available2009-10-06T05:33:45Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractA 2007 PMLA article discussing the <italic>Walt Whitman Archive</italic> juxtaposed narrative and database as competing forms of cultural expression. This article incited a flurry of responses which continued to use the database and narrative comparison. Dinin, in his article "Digital (In)Humanities," reassesses the terms of the digital archive debate, arguing that the terms "narrative" and "database" are both constricting and misleading. The juxtaposition shouldn't be database versus narrative to see which one becomes the dominant form of cultural expression because narrative, he argues, is a form of database. The more proper juxtaposition, as presented by the paper, is one that places "digital archive" alongside "narrative" because both are products of database and both are forms of cultural expression. Dinin, in his article, then goes on to explore the potential of digital archives as a form of cultural expression.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9454
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDatabaseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDigital Archivesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDigital Humanitesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEmily Dickinsonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNew Mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWalt Whitmanen_US
dc.titleDigital (In)Humanities: Re-reading Digital Archives as a Form of Cultural Expressionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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