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Encoding and Visualizing Literature: Reading Otherwise Haverford College, 4 April 2009. Johanna Drucker: “The migration of typeset texts into ASCII streams has been an issue of contention in literary and biographical studies since the advent of the Internet. Such debates - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Johanna Drucker: “The migration of typeset texts into ASCII streams has been an issue of contention in literary and biographical studies since the advent of the Internet. Such debates underscore the fact that [visual] properties of texts are informational, not incidental, to many scholarly projects.”  “Blind Spots: Humanists Must Plan Their Digital Future,” Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review,3 April 2009http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i30/30b00601.htm?utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

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Oliver Goldsmith, The Beauties of English Poetry, 1767

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