Textual Technology ePortfolio
Curiously, the copy of This Side of Paradise in the Carleton archives is miscatalogued: it references F. Scott Fitzgerald as the author of The Great Gatsby, which wouldn’t make sense based on the catalogue date of 1920. This date likely …
Twine is a web tool that produces independent web-pages containing interactive hypertext stories. These functionally ressemble choose-your-own-adventure books, but with greater flexibility of content, media, and story logic permitted by the use of computers, similar in spirit also to ’80s …
A few weeks ago, we actually got to visit the printing press at Carleton! While we didn’t do any of the typesetting ourselves, we did get to operate the machine that rolled cut rectangles of cotton paper over the forms, …
Our visits to special collections were the first time I had actually seen medieval manuscripts and early print books in person, and I would never have judged them to be as intricately detailed as some of them really are. I …
One important realisation that came from an attempt at writing authentically was that many of the letter shapes of medieval handwriting are almost essential to this method of writing, especially if one wants to write neatly as most scribes intended. …
Interestingly, even my “nearly perfect” quill from the previous post didn’t write particularly well when new – it wrote very large and used up lots of ink, requiring me to dip it every three letters. When presented with a large …
Part of the hands-on nature of this class was that after finishing many readings on the production of quills and oak-gall ink, we actually got to make one our own! This meant taking a goose feather, cutting it to length, …
As a way to put the skills we had acquired in our readings to use, we wrote a descriptive bibliography of a work we found interesting. This is a study of a work’s nature beyond the content of its text …
