[September 25th marks William Faulkner’s 125th birthday. So this week I’ve AmericanStudied Faulkner and other Southern storytellers, leading up to this special weekend tribute to a great new Faulkner website!]
I’ve
already highlighted my Dad Stephen Railton’s newest web project, Digital
Yoknapatawpha (which features many many collaborators and
contributors, but was Dad’s idea so I’m gonna do my filial duty and call it
his) in two prior posts:
--This
one on all three of his scholarly websites;
--and this
one focused on DY and my hopes for how it can be found and used by
educators, students, and all interested readers.
Hopefully
those posts make clear how unique and impressive this project is, and make all
interested FaulknerStudiers (and all the rest of y’all too) ready to check it
out for themselves. I could spend many more posts than this one highlighting
all the very helpful and very cool specific elements to DY, so here’s just one:
the temporal
heatmaps that can help readers trace different places across both time and
Faulkner’s texts. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a digital humanities tool that
truly embodies both words in that phrase—using digital resources to capture a
key element to the literary works being studied, and reveal new ways to read
and understand them. Just the tip of the DY iceberg!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Faulkner resources or other Southern storytellers you’d share?
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