In this post I attempt to isolate what I take to be three basic critical gestures that are performed in both “traditional” and “iterative” literary criticism. These gestures are: pointing, circling, and naming. Before giving examples of these three gestures, a few words about what makes them possible in digital work: establishing a corpus, defining […]
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An Ecology of Critical Gestures: Point, Circle and Name
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