The book starts with an introductory exploration on how writers use computers; gives a definition of Born-digital Literary Archives, provides a few examples from the international panorama and carries out a mapping of digital archives in... more
The book starts with an introductory exploration on how writers use computers; gives a definition of Born-digital Literary Archives, provides a few examples from the international panorama and carries out a mapping of digital archives in Italy with a particular focus on Franco Fortini’s Archive held at the University of Siena. The volume offers a summary of the first Italian project devoted to the Italian born-digital literary archives, PAD - Pavia Digital Archives, by analysing the process of acquisition and management of the materials, now kept at the Centro Manoscritti in Pavia. Finally a critical analysis of Francesco Pecoraro’s first three works is offered through an examination of his digital archive in Pavia.
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Extrema ratio è un ciclo di dialoghi e lezioni organizzato dal Dipartimento di Filologia e critica delle letterature antiche e moderne dell'Università di Siena.
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Il ricchissimo archivio digitale di uno scrittore di grande qualità conferito a PAD. Il mondo della rete e le sue metamorfosi: newsletter, blog personali e lit-blog, luoghi virtuali di scritture e scambi. L'attuale dominio dei social... more
Il ricchissimo archivio digitale di uno scrittore di grande qualità conferito a PAD. Il mondo della rete e le sue metamorfosi: newsletter, blog personali e lit-blog, luoghi virtuali di scritture e scambi. L'attuale dominio dei social network. Come si orientano gli scrittori di fronte a queste evoluzioni? Che influenza ha il web sulla scrittura letteraria e sui processi creativi?
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In 2009, a few months after the death of David Foster Wallace and John Updike, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and other researchers made a point on the issues of the born-digital archives of contemporary writers and analyzed the most important... more
In 2009, a few months after the death of David Foster Wallace and John Updike, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and other researchers made a point on the issues of the born-digital archives of contemporary writers and analyzed the most important Institutions who were working on this type of material.
Ten years have passed and Universities and Libraries that acquire born-digital materials of contemporary writers are growing. There are many significant case studies, such as the archives of Michael Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Normal Mailer, Arold Weker, George Whitmore and James Welch. It’s easier nowadays to manage born-digital materials, and scholarships that define the best practices in preservation plans are increasing; some guides for donors and digital curators have also been published. Despite this, many methodological problems are waiting to be solved, starting with the concept itself of the Literary Archives and Memory Institutions in the Digital Age, which also concerns the issue of preservation of authors’ texts produced on web sites and social networks.
The aim of the paper is 1. to provide a theoretical background to the issues of born-digital literary archives 2. to propose a mapping of the most important archives, comparing their different methodologies in acquisition and preservation, and show the first Italian case – the born-digital archive of the poet Franco Fortini (1917-1994), hosted by the University of Siena, which allowed to publish in 2006 a posthumous edition; 3. to argument whether or not it is possible to define any new philological approaches to the study of born-digital archives.
Ten years have passed and Universities and Libraries that acquire born-digital materials of contemporary writers are growing. There are many significant case studies, such as the archives of Michael Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Normal Mailer, Arold Weker, George Whitmore and James Welch. It’s easier nowadays to manage born-digital materials, and scholarships that define the best practices in preservation plans are increasing; some guides for donors and digital curators have also been published. Despite this, many methodological problems are waiting to be solved, starting with the concept itself of the Literary Archives and Memory Institutions in the Digital Age, which also concerns the issue of preservation of authors’ texts produced on web sites and social networks.
The aim of the paper is 1. to provide a theoretical background to the issues of born-digital literary archives 2. to propose a mapping of the most important archives, comparing their different methodologies in acquisition and preservation, and show the first Italian case – the born-digital archive of the poet Franco Fortini (1917-1994), hosted by the University of Siena, which allowed to publish in 2006 a posthumous edition; 3. to argument whether or not it is possible to define any new philological approaches to the study of born-digital archives.