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This paper concurs with Mark Olsen's premise that computer-aided literature studies should take a different direction, one that is more suited to the computer's strength in analyzing large corpora of texts. However, the authors take issue with his conclusion that a reorientation of the notions of textual analysis is necessary in order to exploit the computer's capabilities. Contemporary medieval studies already provides us with models of textual analysis which are well suited to computer development. Though they stem from the particularities of medieval textual production, these models can perhaps be useful in the study of modern literatures.
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Peter Shoemaker is an advanced graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at Princeton University. He is preparing a dissertation on the rhetoric of patronage in the seventeenth century.
Gina Greco is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She is currently collaborating on a database of the manuscript tradition of Chretien de Troyes'sLe Chevalier de la Charrette. Her other research interests include the Old French prose Lancelot-Grail cycle.
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Greco, G.L., Shoemaker, P. Intertextuality and large corpora: A medievalist approach. Comput Hum 27, 349–355 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01829385
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