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Leah Christman edited the blog post Thoreau, the Home, and the House in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 5 months ago

As a big fan of “close reading,” digging into the meat of words on a page, the idea of turning those words into numerical data through things like Voyant Tools doesn’t really float my boat. I like to try to figure out authorial intent a lot of the time, and while there is at least a faint possibility of finding that in close reading, I highly…[Read more]
Leah Christman edited the blog post Revision–The Literary Double Take in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 6 months ago

My ideal mindset on revision would be exactly what it sounds like: envisioning something for the umpteenth time since its initial creation, with a fresh set of eyes ready to see the flaws, or simply how that first vision has changed over time. To be frank, this is not how I actually look at this term when I see it day-to-day. When the words…[Read more]
Leah Christman edited the blog post Some Marginal Thoughts on Annotation (Leah Christman) in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 7 months ago

I have never annotated. At the very least, I have never done it without being forced to do so; whether it be marking up a Xerox-copied installment of Great Expectations upon which a grade relies, or tediously pouring over a tired edition of Morrison’s Song of Solomon to mark motifs in AP English, this practice has always been something to dr…[Read more]