The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction : Editions, Translations, and Emulations (Elements in Digital Literary Studies)

Grigar, Dene/ Pisarski, Mariusz

Cambridge University Press（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 94 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009507370

Full Description

The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations addresses the growing concern about how best to maintain and extend the accessibility of early interactive novels and hypertext fiction or narratives. These forms of born-digital literature were produced before or shortly after the mainstreaming of the World Wide Web with proprietary software and on formats now obsolete. Preserving and extending them for a broad study by scholars of book culture, literary studies, and digital culture necessitate they are migrated, translated, and emulated - yet these activities can impact the integrity of the reader experience. Thus, this Element centers on three key challenges facing such efforts: (1) precision of references: identifying correct editions and versions of migrated works in scholarship; (2) enhanced media translation: approaching translation informed by the changing media context in a collaborative environment; and (3) media integrity: relying on emulation as the prime mode for long-term preservation of born-digital novels.

Contents

1. Introduction: welcome to the fun house!; 1. Emulation; 2. Migration and translation; 3. Editions and versions; 4. Preserving endangered works of born-digital; 5. Literature: final thoughts; References.