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Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
Ossian Online is a
project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to
crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known
collectively as the Ossian poems. The
project will ...
For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
The argument presented by a
scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a
very small group of editors. But is
it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps
competing, ...
The Contraband of Hibernia
(2013)
In the early 1980s, Anthony Cronin identified Thomas Moore as
"the necessary national bard" suggesting that his work was crucial
to the coherent articulation of Irish national identity in the early nineteenth
century. ...
Poetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers
(2013)
The mass digitisation of our literary
heritage has resulted in both possibilities and problems for the literary
scholar. With the availability large-scale literary corpora comes the implicit
perception that digital ...
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)
Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the
literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s
Ossian poems. Many
revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...
Manuscript Transcription: the Habits of Crowds
(2013)
Paper describes author's involvement in Transcribe Bentham, a project established to crowdsource transcriptions of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, and reflects more generally on the issues at stake in crowdsourcing ...
Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
(2014)
James Macpherson s Ossian
poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First
published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly
translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ...
Using Distributional Semantics to Trace Influence and Imitation in Romantic Orientalist Poetry
(ACL, 2014-08-23)
In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary orformal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moorein the genre of Romantic ...
Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition
(2014)
This Digital Demo will present Ossian Online, a social edition of the sequence of
eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of ...
Of Little Consequence: the Early Career of Thomas Moore
(2013)
This paper argues that a narrow focus on Moore's Irishness and Irish writings does not adequately represent his relevance and importance in nineteenth-century literature and culture. It draws attention to the early phase ...