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Scholarly modes of electronic publication:
conversational, discursive, formal
 
Willard McCarty, King's College London
17 March 2001 - Sorbonne, Paris
 
  1. Conversational: Humanist <www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
    • Brief history, 1987-present
    • Nature: seminar + piazza
    • Uses: announcement, offer, call for participation, query, discussion
    • Purposes: socio-political (community & reputation building), academic (field building), scholarly (research & publication), intellectual (discovery)
    • Ways and means: editorial persona, communal ethos
  2. Introductive/circumventive: the scholarly personal Web-site (e.g. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/)
    • Nature: curriculum vitae + poster session + open source
    • Uses: display interests, position, duties & responsibilities; pre-/reprint giveaway
    • Purposes: socio-political (establish bona fides), academic (exert influence), scholarly-intellectual (circulate ideas)
  3. Formal
    1. The Analytical Onomasticon <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/onomasticon-sampler/>
      • Literary-critical overview: influence of the poem; the problem of "unity" in the Metamorphoses
      • Computational methodology: identification and markup of names; modelling of literary phenomena
      • Scholarship (vs enabling of scholarship): models and their failures, e.g. a grammar of personification
      • Form of publication: electronic, Web-based
      • Problems and reasons: a history of misadventures and reflections on it
    2. Glosses on the Psychomachia <ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/so/>
      • Historical/philological overview: influence of the poem; role of the glosses; current approach to glossing; glosses as commentary (with paradoxical primacy)
      • Computational methodology: image-mapping -> image as commentary; problematic spatial relationship of gloss to text
      • Form of publication: electronic, Web-based
      • Problems: all the expected ones....

       

A descriptive grammar of personification
 
  1. Definition

    Any rhetorical act that transgresses normal ontology by investing an entity with a human imaginative component, whether or not the result is anthropomorphic.

  2. Major groups
    1. Implicitly personified: purely fictitious creatures that are ontologically unusual by nature.
    2. Explicitly personified, i.e. personifications proper, ascribed to a varying mixture of 10 local factors, variously influenced by one or more of 5 larger contexts.
  1. Local factors
    • STRONG: sometimes occur alone
      • Apostrophe
      • Familial relationship
      • Locution
      • Mental activity
    • WEAK: always in combination with one or more other factors
      • Attributed action
      • Body-part
      • Parallel to another entity.
      • Possession
      • Quality/role
      • Self-reference (reflexive pronouns; possessive adjective; other pronouns used reflexively)
  1. Larger contexts
    • Onomastic: how the name is used, e.g. association with an established person (e.g. sol and Phoebus), frequent personification elsewhere (e.g. tellus/terra)
    • Narrative: nature of the story being told
    • Poetic-mythological: conventional associations
    • Ontological: status --> ease of personification
    • Personal: special individuals (e.g. Medea, Orpheus) cause personifications
 
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