Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904375
Peter C. Norberg, Steven Olsen-Smith
Abstract:Melville's Marginalia Online was created by the authors in 2006 with the goal of making evidence of Melville's reading broadly available to scholarship. Carrying on the work of Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and Wilson Walker Cowen, MMO maintains the documentary record of books Melville is known to have owned or borrowed and digitally edits his marginalia for open access by web users. Cross-disciplinary collaborations at the project have produced new digital tools for accessing and studying Melville's marginalia. In addition to introducing readers to MMO and its features, this article provides an overview of marginalia study in Melville criticism and explains how enhanced methods of inquiry present significant opportunities to assess and extend the work of earlier criticism on Melville. As its scope expands into areas of natural language processing and source study and as its technology is developed still further, MMO will provide scholars, students, and enthusiasts with the ability to identify the impact of Melville's reading on his own literary productions with new degrees of accuracy. Data informed scholarship, we believe, will build on the best Melville criticism of the past century and move Melville studies toward comprehensive and informed knowledge of his thought and writing.
摘要:梅尔维尔的旁注在线是作者于2006年创建的，目的是使学术界广泛获得梅尔维尔阅读的证据。MMO延续了Merton M. Sealts, Jr.和Wilson Walker Cowen的工作，保留了梅尔维尔已知拥有或借用的书籍的记录，并对其旁注进行了数字编辑，以供网络用户开放访问。该项目的跨学科合作产生了新的数字工具，用于访问和研究梅尔维尔的旁注。除了向读者介绍MMO及其特点外，本文还概述了梅尔维尔批评中的旁注研究，并解释了如何增强调查方法为评估和扩展早期对梅尔维尔的批评工作提供了重要机会。随着它的范围扩展到自然语言处理和来源研究领域，随着它的技术进一步发展，MMO将为学者、学生和爱好者提供一种能力，使他们能够以新的精度识别梅尔维尔的阅读对他自己的文学作品的影响。我们相信，以数据为基础的学术研究，将建立在过去一个世纪中最好的梅尔维尔批评的基础上，并将梅尔维尔研究推向对他的思想和写作的全面和翔实的认识。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904374
D. Mischke, Christopher Ohge
Abstract:The use of computational tools for the study of literature can facilitate new perspectives and avenues for critical work. Reflecting on the recent emergence of (and increasing hype around) large languages models such as GPT, this essay argues that the creation of "smart" data sets and corpora as new forms of literary objects requires and enables the development of computational methods and tools that can create "data stories". Smart data sets continue a humanistic tradition of textual scholarship and bibliography while also preparing text data to be "read" by machines. In telling "data stories" about Herman Melville, we bridge the gap from "numbers to meaning" in a variety of examples from Billy Budd. The essay closes with a broader reflection on reading Melville in the age of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904381
Jennifer Greiman, Justine s. Murison, Michael Jonik, M. Crow, J. Parra, Carrie Tirado Bramen, R. Tally, Andrew Donnelly, Gabriel Briex, Stuart Burrows
A J o u r n A l o f M e l v i l l e S t u d i e S 141 takes on the management of both skepticism and religious belief, and both are central to the herb doctor chapters. the irony the novel uncovers is how, in a secular society that champions skepticism, there is not a robust language for the confidence necessary to everyday interactions. conspiracy theory is both a symptom of this irony—and its end result. Melville’s Dialogic Thinking: Philosophical Styles in The Confidence-Man
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904376
S. Otter, R. K. Wallace
Abstract:Melville's Print Collection Online (MPCO) is a digital humanities website designed to exhibit, document, and interpret the 420 prints we know (so far) that Melville collected. Three of eight planned chapters have been completed and are available on the site. MPCO offers high-resolution images and discussions of the prints in relation to art history; to Melville's fiction, poetry, journals, and correspondence; and to his life as author and collector. In this essay we consider Melville's acquisition of prints as what Susan M. Pearce, in On Collecting, terms an "act of imagination"; we describe the structure of the site; and we analyze three examples that convey MPCO's range of images and approaches, the discoveries that the Web has enabled, and the interpretive possibilities that the site affords. These examples span a range of techniques (line engraving, lithograph, mezzotint) and topics (Greek tragedy, topographical view, biblical miracle) and relate to issues prominent in Melville's writing and life: the reach of imagination, the geography of politics, and the intimacies of absence and presence.
摘要:梅尔维尔版画收藏在线(MPCO)是一个数字人文网站，旨在展示、记录和解读梅尔维尔迄今为止收集的420幅版画。八个计划章节中的三个已经完成，可以在网站上找到。MPCO提供与艺术史相关的高分辨率图像和版画讨论;梅尔维尔的小说、诗歌、日记和信件;以及他作为作家和收藏家的一生。在这篇文章中，我们认为梅尔维尔对版画的收购是苏珊·m·皮尔斯(Susan M. Pearce)在《论收藏》(On Collecting)一书中所说的“想象行为”;我们描述了场地的结构;我们分析了三个例子，这些例子传达了MPCO的图像和方法的范围，网络所带来的发现，以及网站提供的解释可能性。这些例子涵盖了一系列的技术(线条雕刻，平版印刷，凹版印刷)和主题(希腊悲剧，地形视图，圣经奇迹)，并涉及梅尔维尔写作和生活中的突出问题:想象力的范围，政治的地理位置，以及缺席和在场的亲密关系。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904373
J. Bryant
Abstract:This biography of the Melville Electronic Library recounts its growth in the context of the development of the intellectual potentials and technological challenges of digital humanities scholarship and reflects on the prospect of an affiliation of Melville projects, collectively called Digital Melville. MEL's fluid-text editorial approach is designed to give readers fuller access to interpretable versions of Melville's works. its proposed interactive visualization of Melville's lost copy or "third Moby-Dick" exemplifies how readers may navigate revisions to Melville's text otherwise obscured, dismissed, or "disappeared" in traditional editing. Digital technology addresses such problems of denied access and builds multi-generational, international communities, evident in MEL's interactive editing and mapping tools TextLab and Itinerary. By embracing "adaptive" as well as authorial and editorial revision, MEL's more comprehensive fluid-text approach also enables material-based contextualization of Melville in adaptation and translation. MEL's three-part structure—Archive, Editions, Projects—invites readers to use the archived and edited materials to generate new scholarship or linked sites. Its current affiliation with the University of Chicago's CEDAR initiative and its transition to Chicago's OCHRE database system is a step toward enhanced interoperability, and may inspire other digital projects, big and small, to join the emergent Digital Melville community.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904372
Brian D Yothers, Jennifer Greiman
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904377
T. Constantinesco
{"title":"American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1851–1877 ed. by Cody Marrs (review)","authors":"T. Constantinesco","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"1 1","pages":"109 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89641500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904379
M. Howard
{"title":"The Response to Some of Melville's Early Books in Australia","authors":"M. Howard","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2023.a904379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2023.a904379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"7 1","pages":"125 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80264275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2023.a904380
André Revel, Jacques Iakopo Pelleau
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