http://www.proustarchive.org A Textual / Visual Resource Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:54:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In searching for suitable work in progress for the IPRH seminar, I came across this beginning to a meditative essay that I composed nearly eight years ago. I thought I would include it here as an example of the kind of writing I intend to do in correlation to this ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=52 In addition to my written summary, you can find the resulting action plans, poll data, and Twitter commentary here: https://wiki.projectbamboo.org/display/BPUB/Workshop+4 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23pb4 OVERVIEW I think Bamboo Workshop 4 went well overall and I was very glad to attend. To my surprise, pedagogy seemed to be one of the areas with the most energy and support ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=51 While reading Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, it occurred to me that the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive should do the same within itself. The first step this Winter will be to complete a major information overhaul, marking up and encoding all passages and images rigorously in ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=49 (Continued from this post and this post.) This project began as a spreadsheet documenting the church passages for a term paper in a Proust seminar. It was subsequently compared by someone else in a textual scholarship seminar to Roland Barthes' S/Z. The comparison holds on two counts: the arranging of passages ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=47 In the last post I asked a question related to David Greetham's metaphor of membranous transmission between archives. In conceiving of a text as an archive (of knowledge, voices, attitudes, values) consisting of inter-membranous citations, this text interrogates its tutor text, and also itself. How must Proust be read here through ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=46 While looking over some materials from one of the courses that sparked this project, I came across some notes on archive theory that seem especially relevant. There is a strong connection between the poetics of the archive and the activity of archiving. In The Poetics of the Archive, Marta Werner and ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=45 It occurred to me as I lay awake last night that Drupal could actually do much of what came out in our discussions at if:book a year ago. Dan Visel suggested allowing users to add their own images and their own passages (permissions nightmares), or to comment on searches, which ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=44 Developing another site using Drupal has gotten me thinking about how the sophisticated integration systems of all kinds of content could be put to use in the Proust archive. Image galleries that can be searched by caption or tagged content, or sorted by different categories. Dynamic flash slideshows based on ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=43 Thought I would follow up this post with an interview of Michael Palin on Leonard Lopate, WNYC, discussing the All-England Summarize Proust Competition and BBC censorship. I think the golf joke much funnier than the original masturbation one. http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=42 While considering a taxonomic versus a folksonomic labeling of passages in the archive, it occurred to me that there are benefits to having both in the search engine and search results. The taxonomic approach would be a codified and rigorous -- and therefore arbitrarily limited -- categorization of narrative elements a ... http://www.proustarchive.org/?p=41