1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
SETTING UP A WORKSTATION FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES AND PRODUCING MULTI-MEDIA TEXTS
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10610469
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | NAGOYA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUOKA Mitsuharu NAGOYA UNIV., FACLTY OF LANGUAGE CULTURE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 言語文化部, 助教授 (70181708)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Keywords | MULTI-MEDIA TEXTS / E-TEXTS / ON-LINE JOURNALS / VICTORIAN / DICKENS / CHRISTMAS CAROL / ELECTRONIC ARCHIVE / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE |
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| Research Abstract |
1. From NACSIS, I have launched the Japan Dickens Fellowship official homepage. This forms the basis of an on- line workstation for Victorian independently.
2. I have digitized the Fellowship's bulletins and the members' articles for the workstation, especially in PDF, in which markup tools facilitate the production of on-line journals and multi-media texts.
3. For those members who cannot attend the Fellowship's conference, I have reproduced it as a virtual one on the Web. There they may experience it vicariously, with PDF files for handouts, and MP3 files for presentations.
4. To assist with a better, under standing of Victorian wording and social background, I have digitized the first edition of A Christmas Carol, with colored illustrations by John Leech, and with explanatory notes. The digitized text has been changed into a multi-media text with image, sound, and video files in order to encourage original interpretations.
5. The embodiment in the multi-media form of digital audio circuits has encouraged a reader, surfing on the worldwide Web to return, consciously or unconsciously looking for the same theme, to the text itself. This is why the Web is called a large-scaled text - i.e., a text susceptible to very wide readings.
6. I have set those fill-out forms in multi-media texts that allow a reader to submit his or her interpretation. Thus, the reader can not only browse the text, but also collaborate activity in producing it.
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