Browsing English (Conference Papers) by Author "Barr, Rebecca Anne"

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    • Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (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 ...

    • Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (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 ...

    • For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (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, ...

    • Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Kelly, David; Tonra, Justin (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 ...

    • Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (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 ...