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Studies in Renaissance /
Early Modern Literature and Culture
http://appositions.blogspot.com/
2010 E-Conference:
Digital Archives & the Field of Production
February-March, 2010
An electronic, international, peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, EBSCO-distributed journal for studies in Renaissance/early modern literature & culture. APPOSITIONS publishes under a Creative Commons License and is an open-access, independently managed journal. ISSN: 1946-1992. APPOSITIONS will be on hiatus beginning October, 2017.
On this page you’ll find closing remarks from the 2010 Appositions e-conference.
Papers from that event have been removed from the site, but a conference program remains along with any comments that were posted in reply to the papers during February-April, 2010.
This was a free, open-access event organized and hosted by APPOSITIONS.
APPOSITIONS hosts an annual e-conference and publishes a related, yet independent peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, electronic journal, Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture, ISSN: 1946-1992.
E-conference participants are invited to revise their papers for submission as article manuscripts, but e-conference participation does not guarantee publication in the journal.
The conference theme for 2010 was Digital Archives & the Field of Production.
How and why does electronic access to archival materials reconfigure the teaching and study of literary texts, related cultural documents, and methodologies for disciplinary or interdisciplinary research and interpretation? What are the benefits and/or limitations of such new media? What are the politics of the digital archive, or of electronic special collections? What is the significance of the original work—or of authorship, or scholarship—in the electronic age? How and why does the digitization of archival documents either celebrate or challenge the status of manuscripts, pamphlets, printed books, and the literary canon?
Seven papers were available for reading and commentary:
Dr. Bill Acres
Huron University College
The University of Western Ontario
Officers and Stations: access and accessibility to sources in manuscript, calendar and digital form
James P. Ascher
University of Colorado at Boulder
The Words Must be Cousin to the Deed, or Must be a Trick of the Document: the Duty of the Diplomatic Transcription in the Ecosystem of Digital Reproduction
Dr. Sarah Barber
Senior Lecturer
Department of History
Lancaster University
Disputation: rewriting the history of the British Caribbean in the 17th century
Sheila Cavanagh
English Department
Emory University
How Does Your Archive Grow?: Academic Politics and Economics in the Digital Age
Jeffery Moser
Department of English
University of Denver
Hypertext Tudor Poems: Wyatt Wrote What?! New Issues of Renaissance Authorship with the Internet
Dr. Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Oxford Brookes University;
Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
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Dr. Ben Burton
St Edmund Hall, Oxford University
Encoding form: A proposed database of poetic form
Whitney Anne Trettien
Duke University
Hidden in Gilt: Fore-edge Paintings, Restoration-era Reading and Digital Elisions
For articles and book reviews published in Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2009) of the journal, use the triangles above to open and close the TOC: first by year, then by month (May, for the journal volumes). Click individual titles and then scroll down.
Volume Three of Appositions will be published in May, 2010. All submissions to the journal will undergo our standard peer-review process.
During the period of the e-conference (February 22 until April 16, 2010), the Appositions site received a total of 1,980 visits from 88 countries, including, for example: Australia (29), Japan (26), Ireland (29), Netherlands (29), Germany (38), and India (34). Total visits from the top 3 countries representing the greatest frequencies were: Canada (125), UK (280), and US (1,083). 8 comments were posted in reply to the papers.
If you would like to see a copy of the CFP for that event, click here:
http://appositions.blogspot.com/2010/02/cfp-2010-digital-archives.html
We hope you will enjoy your visit, and that you’ll share Appositions with your colleagues, friends, and students. If you have questions and/or comments, please let us hear from you.
—The Editors
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EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITOR
W. SCOTT HOWARD
Department of English
University of Denver
EDITORIAL ADVISORS
CHRISTOPHER BAKER
Languages, Literature & Philosophy
Armstrong State University
RAPHAEL FALCO
Department of English
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
ELIZABETH H. HAGEMAN
Department of English
University of New Hampshire
BRETT D. HIRSCH
Centre for Medieval &
Early Modern Studies
University of Western Australia
MATTHEW STEGGLE
Humanities Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
SARA J. van den BERG
Department of English
Saint Louis University
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CHRISTINA ANGEL
Department of English
Metropolitan State College, Denver
ERIK ANKERBERG
Department of English
Wisconsin Lutheran College
CRISTELLE BASKINS
Art & Art History Department
Tufts University
GARY R. ETTARI
Department of Literature & Language
University of North Carolina, Asheville
ANNE GREENFIELD
Department of English
Valdosta State University
JUTTA SPERLING
Social Sciences, History
Hampshire College
AMY D. STACKHOUSE
Department of English
Iona College
ASSISTANT EDITORS
JENNIFER L. AILLES
Department of English
Rollins College
LOUISE DENMEAD
Department of English
University College, Cork
THOMAS J. MORETTI
Department of English
Iona College
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APPOSITION:
1. A public disputation by scholars; a formal examination by question and answer; still applied to the ‘Speech day’ at St. Paul's School, London. [1659-60 PEPYS Diary 9 Jan., “My brother John’s speech, which he is to make the next apposition.” 1864 Press 18 June 588, “St. Paul’s School . . . celebrated its annual Apposition on Wednesday.”]
2. The action of putting or placing one thing to another; application. [1541 R. COPLAND Guydon’s Quest. Cyrurg., “Yf after the fyrste apposycyon . . . it blede nat wel.” 1559 MORWYNG Evon. 367, “All suche thinges as . . . fomentacions, apposicions, embroches, etc.” 1650 FULLER Pisgah IV. vi. 117, “By apposition, or putting of sweet odours to the dead body.” 1726 AYLIFFE Parergon 308, “By the Apposition of a Publick Seal.” 1875 POSTE Gaius II. 220, “The apposition of the seals of seven attesting witnesses.”]
3. That which is put to or added; an addition. [1610 J. GUILLIM Heraldry §1. i. (1660) 10, “For distinction sake, to annex some apposition over and above their paternall Coat.” 1655 FULLER Ch. Hist. II. 67, “The Place is plainly written Cern, without any paragogical apposition.”]
4. The placing of things in close superficial contact; the putting of distinct things side by side in close proximity. [1660 STANLEY Hist. Philos. 64/2, “The mistion of the Elements is by apposition.” 1669 GALE Crt. Gentiles I. I. vi. 35, “[The word] according to the various apposition of the leters, may signifie either a foot, or a river.” 1830 LYELL Princ. Geol. (1875) I. II. xix. 488, “These layers must have accumulated one on the other by lateral apposition.” 1850 DAUBENY Atom. The. iv. 121, “The result of the apposition of an assemblage of smaller crystals.”]
5. The fact or condition of being in close contact, juxtaposition, parallelism. [1606 G. CARLETON Tithes Exam. iv. 21b, “There is an apposition betweene things of the same kinde.” a1. 652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. v. 160, “A mere kind of apposition or contiguity of our natures with the divine.” 1801 FUSELI Lect. Art. (1848), “The true medium between dry apposition and exuberant contrast.” 1824-8 LANDOR Imag. Conv. (1846) 159, “He places strange and discordant ideas in close apposition.” 1878 T. BRYANT Pract. Surg. I. 145, “The cut surfaces and edges of the wounds are to be brought into apposition.”]
6. Rhet. The addition of a parallel word or phrase by way of explanation or illustration of another. Obs. [1561 T. [ORTON] Calvin’s Inst. III. 187, “Calling faith the worke of God, and geuing it that title for a name of addition, and calling it by figure of apposition Gods good pleasure.” a1. 638 MEDE Wks. I. xxiv. 93, “It is an Apposition, or παράθεση, and ειρήνη στη γη, the latter words declaring the meaning of the former; ‘Peace on earth,’ that is, ‘Good will towards men.’”]
7. Gram. The placing of a word beside, or in syntactic parallelism with, another; spec. the addition of one substantive to another, or to a noun clause, as an attribute or complement; the position of the substantive so added. [c. 1440 Gesta Rom. (1879) 416, “Yonge childryn that gone to the scole haue in here Donete this question, how many thinges fallen to apposicion?” 1591 PERCIVALL Span. Dict., “A Preposition . . . either in Composition, as, Contrahecho . . . or in Apposition, as, En la casa.” 1657 J. SMITH Myst. Rhet. 191, “Apposition is a figure . . . whereby one Noune Substantive is for Declaration and distinction sake added unto another in the same case.” 1860 JOWETT Ess. & Rev. 398, “In the failure of syntactical power . . . in various forms of apposition, especially that of the word to the sentence.”]
--OED