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Digital humanities

interpretation by deliberately rearranging or altering a text, such as reading a poem backward, to reveal its hidden features.

In digital humanities, deformance refers to interpretation by deliberately rearranging or altering a text, such as reading a poem backward, to reveal its hidden features. This meaning comes from Samuels (1999) in New Literary History.[1]

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interpretation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs reading2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs text4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four fields

References

Samuels, L., & McGann, J. J. (1999). Deformance and Interpretation. New Literary History, 30(1), 25-56. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.1999.0010

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