5.0872 News: TEI in TLS; Teaching Milton w/ Hypertext (2/35)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 29 Apr 1992 22:04:07 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0872. Wednesday, 29 Apr 1992.


(1) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 19:01 EDT (16 lines)
From: John Lavagnino <LAV@BRANDEIS.BITNET>
Subject: TEI in TLS

(2) Date: 29 Apr 92 09:00 CST (19 lines)
From: HuntleyJ@epb-po.epb.uiowa.edu
Subject: Teaching Milton with computers

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 19:01 EDT
From: John Lavagnino <LAV@BRANDEIS.BITNET>
Subject: TEI in TLS

A recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement out of London ran a
curious article on the Text Encoding Initiative (Geoffrey Sampson,
"Writing within bounds"; April 17, 1992, page 14). It's nice to see the
TEI getting some publicity in the larger scholarly world, even if this
presentation has a very peculiar point of view: it represents the TEI as
a conspiracy of Americans and book publishers united against the freedom
of expression of British authors. When it sticks to the actual program
of the TEI and doesn't wander into extravagant invention, though, it
grants that the whole thing is in fact a fairly good idea.

John Lavagnino
Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University
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Date: 29 Apr 92 09:00 CST
From: HuntleyJ@epb-po.epb.uiowa.edu
Subject: Teaching Milton with computers


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Teaching Milton by computer, or How can you use computers
to help teach literature, poetry, and stuff like that?
Humanists may be interested in one classroom experiment using
Macintosh computers and a HyperCard annotator to teach
Paradise Lost to undergraduates.
The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 3 (1991), 62-83,
has just published my account of the course--which was a lot
of fun.
If you'd like to see what the students turned out, and how they
did it, e-mail me at john-huntley@uiowa.edu, or slow-mail
me at Dept. of English, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Three bucks to cover the diskettes would help, but it's not essential.