Digital illuminated books: autograph and reproduction in The William Blake Archive

Authors

  • Manuel Portela Universidade de Combra, Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148523544

Keywords:

Digital Archive, Illuminated printing, Remediation, Digital encoding, Graphical interface, Text and image

Abstract

Over the past 20 years, The William Blake Archive (http://www.blakearchive.org/) has developed a complex representation of Blake’s autograph production. This digital simulation of the authorial archive has significantly changed the reading experience of the illuminated printing, by means of a facsimile restitution of the visual textuality of the original that recreates the autographic uniqueness of variations in each copy. Analyzed as a remediation of both typographic and manual forms and processes, The William Blake Archive allows us to identify a set of modeling and modularization strategies required for the digital processing of the works. Through the analysis of text and image encoding, on the one hand, and of the archive’s interface, on the other, this article shows the material and critical implications of this digital reconstruction of Blake’s illuminated books.

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Author Biography

Manuel Portela, Universidade de Combra, Coimbra

Manuel Portela é Professor Auxiliar com Agregação no Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da Universidade de Coimbra. Doutorado em Cultura Inglesa pela Universidade de Coimbra (2001) e Agregado em Literatura Inglesa (2010). Foi bolseiro de pós-doutoramento da FCT no Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), da Universidade da Virgínia (2008). Tem lecionado nos cursos de licenciatura de Línguas Modernas, de Estudos Artísticos e de Ciência da Informação Arquivística e Biblioteconómica; no curso de mestrado de Estudos Ingleses e Americanos, e no curso de doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura. Foi Diretor do Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, em Coimbra, entre 2005 e 2008. É investigador do Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra desde 2007. Colaborou como investigador no projeto 'PO-EX '70-'80: Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa' (2010-2013, CECLICO, Universidade Fernando Pessoa) e é o investigador responsável pelo projeto 'Nenhum Problema Tem Solução: Um Arquivo Digital do Livro do Desassossego' (2012-2015, CLP, Universidade de Coimbra). 

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2016-08-18

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Portela, M. (2016). Digital illuminated books: autograph and reproduction in The William Blake Archive. Letras, (51), p. 15. https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148523544

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