• Radiant Virtuality

    Author(s):
    Paul Fyfe (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    TC Digital Humanities, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
    Subject(s):
    Virtual reality, Criticism, Textual, Digital media
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Virtual heritage, Textual criticism, Victorian culture
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6D795975
    Abstract:
    This chapter situates the Victoria’s Lost Pavilion project (https://pavilion.chass.ncsu.edu/) amid related work in virtual modeling and their interpretive problematics. Drawing from a tradition in textual criticism, the chapter renovates Jerome McGann’s notion of “radiant textuality” to extended virtual objects and built environments in digital space. It argues that projects like Victoria’s Lost Pavilion must emphasize their work as interpretive models over their appeal as experiential time machines. These models should expose their sources and critical conjectures as much as they appeal to the historical imagination with immersive representational fidelity. What results is “radiant virtuality,” linking innovative work in immersive environments to our scholarly legacy of curating and interpreting the cultural past.
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1057/978-1-349-95195-6_6
    Publisher:
    Palgrave Macmillan
    Pub. Date:
    2017
    Book Title:
    Victoria’s Lost Pavilion: From Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics to Digital Humanities
    Author/Editor:
    Paul Fyfe, Antony Harrison, David Hill, Sharon Joffe, and Sharon Setzer
    Chapter:
    5
    Page Range:
    97 - 115
    ISBN:
    978-1-349-95194-9
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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