Morrisian Spectres of Working and Learning in the Context of "The New Division of Labour"

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Theses on Discerning the Reading Series

A series of theses about the status of literary reading series as cultural events and artifacts

The Victorian Critic as Naturalizing Agent

This article examines Victorian theories of style and rhetoric in relation to racialist and nationalist debates surrounding the English language during the Victorian period, and in relation to degrees of agency granted to the literary critic at the end of the nineteenth-century

Mammals and Machines: Michael McClure's Embodying Poetics

Analysis of American poet Michael McClure's "beast" poems from his collection *Ghost Tantra's* in relation to his sound recordings of those poems, his mammalian philosophy and Bleakean aesthetics. The essay considers vocal performance in terms of corporeal extension, and engages in what Charles Bernstein has called critical "close listening.

Early Talking Books: Spoken Recordings and Recitation Anthologies, 1880-1920

This article explores the rhetorical context for early spoken sound recordings, placing them in the contexts of early promotional discourses surrounding the phonograph as an 'immediate' device for the storage and delivery of speech, and in the context of late Victorian recitation anthologies and practices

Extending Genetic Criticism to Audiotexts: A Conversation with Jason Wiens

Jason Lee Wiens, a CanLit scholar, has been involved in the SpokenWeb Pedagogy Task Force, developing approaches to teaching with sound recordings, over the past year. Wiens’ engagement in the use of sound recordings in the teaching of Canadian poetry has led him to think about the relationship between sound recordings of author’s reading their works (sometimes in advance of their publication) and the published versions of those same poems. The following discussion explores and extends some of the thinking developed for Wiens' paper “Sounding Difference: Genetic Criticism and Literary Audio Recordings,” delivered at at the “Genesis – Genetic Criticism: from Theory to Practice” conference held at the Jagiellonian University (Kracow), and co-sponsored by the Institute des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Paris), 12-14 June 2019

Amodern 4: The Poetry Series

This is the editorial introduction to a special issue of the open access journal Amodern (issue number 4) on "The Poetry Series", that uses an archive of sound recordings documenting "The Sir George Williams Poetry Series" as a case study for critical analysis of literary reading series. This issue and its individual contributions use "The Poetry Series" as a touchstone for different modes and avenues of critical literary, media and historical analysis. This introductory essay forwards arguments about "Discovery, Transformation and Transcription", "Historiography, Criticism and the Digital Condition", and articulates the concept of "Audiography", a form of bibliographical criticism and sociology of the audiotext

Séance de travail des membres du CRIHN 2018-2019: Jason Camlot - SpokenWeb: Metadata Scheme and Cataloguing Process

Jason Camlot, director of the SpokenWeb research program, with Jared Wiercinski and Tomasz Neugebauer (both librarians at Concordia University) will give a presentation on the development of a metadata schema and a metadata ingest system for the collections of digitized legacy literary audio that are at the core of their new, collaborative partnership

Dynamic Systems for Humanities Audio Collections : The Theory and Rationale of Swallow

This paper approaches a system that has been designed, and continues to be in development, for the aggregation of metadata surrounding collections of documentary literary sound recordings, as an object for theoretical and practical discussion of how information about diverse collections of time-based media should be managed, and what such schema and system development means for our engagement with the contents of such collections as artifacts of humanist inquiry. Swallow (Swallow Metadata Management System 2019), the interoperable spoken-audio metadata ingest system project that is the boundary object for this talk, emerged out of the goals of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant research network to digitize, process, describe, and aggregate the metadata of a diverse range of sound collections documenting literary and cultural activity in Canada since the 1950s. Our talk, collaboratively written and delivered by a literary scholar and critical theorist, a digital projects and systems development librarian, and a library developer / programmer, outlines 1) a theoretical rationale for the audiotext as a significant form of data in the humanities, 2) consequent modes of description deemed necessary to render such data useful for humanities scholars, and 3) a rationale for the development of a specific form of database system given the material and systems contexts that inform our national holdings of documentary literary sound recordings at the present time

Archive of the Digital Present (ADP), COVID-19 Period: Collecting and Visualizing Metadata of Online Literary Events Hosted in Canada, March 2020 - September 2021

Archive of the Digital Present for Online Literary Performance in Canada (COVID-19 Pandemic Period) is a research and development project that arises out of the need to address foundational, practical and theoretical research questions about the impact of the recent (and ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic, and attendant social disruptions and restrictions, upon literary communities in Canada through the study of organised literary events as they have occurred online since March 2020. The papers that constitute this panel focus on the design and development work pursued in building a searchable, open access database and directory – The Archive of the Digital Present (ADP) – to allow scholars, literary practitioners, and the public to gain knowledge about the nature and significance of literary events (online, hybrid, and in-person) that have occurred during the pandemic period, through the collection and structuring of metadata, and, in some cases, with direction to audiovisual (AV) documentation of the events themselves as they were held using platforms such as Zoom and YouTube. Our papers explain key facets of development by presenting approaches to (1) data collection and structuring, (2) stack development, (3) data visualisation, and (4) front end design, that have emerged through the process of community and user-oriented design research and development used to create the ADP