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s Scholarly CommunicationPast, present and future of knowledge
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Series Editors: Adriaan van der Weel, Leiden University,The
Netherlands,Ernst Thoutenhoofd, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands,andRay Siemens, University of Victoria, Canada
For more information please visit brill.nl/sc ISSN 1879-9027
Editorial board:
Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, ItalyAmy Friedlander,
Washington, DC, USASteve Fuller, University of Warwick, UKChuck
Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources, USAWillard
McCarty, Kings College London, UK / University of Western Sydney,
AustraliaMariya Mitova, Leiden, The NetherlandsPatrik Svensson, Ume
University, SwedenMelissa Terras, University College London, UKJohn
Willinsky, Stanford University, USAPaul Wouters, Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts & Sciences, The NetherlandsBrills Scholarly
Communication is an academic series that publishes imaginative and
thought-provoking
accounts of scholarly reading and writing practices from any
disciplinary perspective, with special
emphasis on past and present change in academic writing
technologies and l iteracy.
Aims and ScopeBrills Scholarly Communication oers a new venue
for original studies into the mutual shaping of
reading, writing and scholarship in the past, present and
future. It also welcomes manuscripts that
interrogate this mutual shaping with respect to science. The
series aims to bring together insights
into the literate nature of scholarship and scholarly activity
from across the entire spectrum of social
sciences and humanities disciplines, emphasizing work aimed at
understanding change in reading,
writing and scholarship. The focus in this series is less on
disciplinary specicities than it is on topical
and imaginative contributions to scholarly literacy in the
widest sense.
ReadershipAll those with an interest in reading and writing as
scholarly work, and in academic text and
publications as products and resources of scholarship. It also
targets researchers studying the past,
present and future of scholarship and scientic research.
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Text Comparison and Digital CreativityThe Production of Presence
and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship
Editors: Wido van Peursen,Ernst D. Thoutenhoofdand Adriaan van
der Weel
October 2010
ISBN 978 90 04 18865 5
Hardback (xviii, 296 pp.) List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169.-
Scholarly Communication/1
In fourteen thoughtful essays this book reports and reects on
the many changes that a digita l
workow brings to the world of original texts and textual
scholarship, and the eect on scholarly
communication practices. The spread of digital technology across
philology, linguistics and
literary studies suggests that text scholarship is ta king on a
more laboratory-like image. The
ability to sort , quantify, reproduce and report text through
computation would seem to facilitate
the exploration of text as another type of quantitative scientic
data. However, developing this
potential also highlights text analysis and text interpretation
as two increasingly separated sub-
tasks in the study of texts. The implied dual nature of
interpretation as the traditional, valued
mode of scholarly text comparison, combined with an increasingly
widespread reliance on digitaltext analysis as scientic mode of
inquiry raises the question as to whether the reexive concepts
that are central to interpretation individualism, subjectivity
are aected by the anonymised,
normative assumptions implied by formal categorisations of text
as digital data.
Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999) in Semitic Languages,
Leiden University, is associateprofessor of Old Testament at Leiden
University. His publications include The Verbal System in
the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2004) and Language and
Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben
Sira (Brill, 2007).
Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Ph.D. (1996) in Sociology and Social
Policy, University of Durham (UK),is lecturer in clinical education
at Groningen University. He has published in various social
science
disciplines on the construction of knowledge, and is an editor
of the Brill book series on Scholarly
Communication.
Adriaan van der Weel, Ph.D. (1998) in textual studies and
English literature, Leiden University,holds the Bohn chair of
modern Dutch book history in the Department of Book and Digital
Media
Studies at Leiden University. He is an editor ofDigital
Humanities Quarterly, and the Brill book series
on Scholarly Communication.
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