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2. ivanhoe help index html Ivanhoe_1 0_Pre Release IVANHOE 1 0 the current state of the software has implemented only the first of the three initially planned IVANHOE playspace visualizations The three include visualizations of the players interactions visualizations of the moves and visualizations of the documents assembled in the discourse field As all three of these coordinates are interrelated and codependent each visualization set exposes to some degree the other two But the three can be usefully distinguished for critical purposes To that end each of the three visualization sets locates and hypothesizes various complex and highly dynamic connections and interactions in relation to one of the three primary IVANHOE coordinates players moves and discursive documents Although all three types of visualization are enabled in the coding written for IVANHOE 1 0 only a player oriented visualization has been implemented The next development stage IVANHOE 1 5 will imple ment a document oriented visualization set and IVANHOE 2 0 will complete the initial designs specs by implementing the move oriented visualization set Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 27 Notes For extended discussions of these general matters see my three related essays Culture and Technology The Way We Live Now What Is To Be Done New Literary History 36 Winter 2005 pp 71 82
3. LEONARDO this move is to be linked to Bethany Nowviskie s ISP Industries moves 14 July 1882 My dear Buchanan I have kept your letter for some time because it calls for a clear and well considered response I realize of course that your views reflect a widely held understanding of what we poets do and make But forgive me if I simply say it is a mistaken view Rossetti used to insist that poetry is and must be written from what he called an inner standing point You will recall that in his response to your review in 1871 he singled out Jenny as illustrative of that key poetic principle He and I differed in both the kinds of poetry we wrote and in some of our ideas about poetry as such but in this crucial matter we were in agreement Hertha is perhaps the one poem of mine that most clearly explicates the inner standing point principle I mention this Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 22 IVANHOE a User s Manual work because while Rossetti practiced this principle he was less interested in and less naturally constituted to write philosophical prose OR poetry than I have been that is to say was less interested than I in writing works that take up the very IDEA of this principle for a subject Hertha s argument you may recall is that a profound integrated order subsists through what Shelley called the universe of things All of nature human as well as
4. The Valentinian sonnet that so troubles you is a licensing device that opens wilderness territories an imaginative version of what the Americans are doing these days to open their westward lands That Rossetti treated this sacred subject in such a coarse way your term is quite accurate marks for us his own terror of the wilderness he nonetheless determined to realize in his own way That he was fearful of where he was going does not diminish his imagi native greatness it simply defines its special character and quality There is no single right or correct way to proceed in these matters My own work as you know takes a very different line Or consider Whitman His greatness as a poet is related to all this because his verse has wedded his new metrical forms to the forbidden subjects that are carried in those forms and that carry us along with them Here in our tight little island one of Whitman s foundational subjects would be called has been called by shrewd ironic French spirits the English vice But in Whitman we realize this vice is simply splendidly another version of the exuberance and extravagance of love which is also one thing as Rossetti s faces are one face But people always SEE this one thing in different ways Althea in Atalanta says that love is one thing an evil thing It is one in all of its imaginative transformations evil or good Blackwell Publi
5. The meaning he brings or that is brought to us THROUGH him is itself only part of the cyclic poem that will not cease until the universe of things ceases to exist Rossetti once said to me that we live in an age when the characters of men emerge like secret writing exposed to fire But we always live in that age which is ageless The mind of Jenny like the mind of Faustine and Dolores is desecrated see line 164 and as such is a more than sacred revelation of everything that everywhere works to make a goblin of the sun But when this kind of dreadful revelation is made in poetry the clarity of truth told in song redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man Jenny is thus an angel of deliverance because of the poem that has released her from her bondage to the goblin values of getting and spending Poetry is like the sun a measureless measure a gift a source of ceaseless expenditure In a goblin world we merely count costs Once again I think of Blake whom Rossetti was obliquely quoting in his great line It makes a goblin of the sun You will of course recall Blake s remarkable pro nouncement in his A Vision of the Last Judgement where he speaks of two ways of seeing the sun as a golden guinea piece or as a heavenly host celebrating the song of the universe Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 23 Understanding o
6. are bought to gratify the beastial desires of men The young man is very much a hero of our own time in his bewildered unhappiness His musings are well intentioned but finally unbalanced because unchristian as Rossetti lets us know Only an economy of grace could right this unbalanced scale bringing salvation to those who seek it as with the Magdalene and punishment to those who pursue their evil courses Cousin Nell is the same as Jenny in the eyes of God and at the poem s end the bewildered young man is left before us as a figure of hope Yours R W Buchanan Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 25 22 July 1882 Dear Buchanan Your readings of Lord Kelvin and of Rossetti s poem are very amusing Why do you think that some patriarchal god would alone find those twin sister vessels lovable I believe that particular god has spent some considerable time and trouble letting us know that Cousin Nell is a good girl and will go to heaven and that Jenny is a very very bad girl and will go to hell unless she becomes like Cousin Nell But why don t you find them both lovable just as they are Shakespeare does Sappho does Villon does Shelley does and I do too All poets do and always have done Ah Jenny yes we know your dreams this is what the young man tells us But DOES he He simply thinks he knows her dreams because he is so fastidious and condescen
7. at the lower right of each and you will then be ushered into the gamespace It may take a few seconds for the application to load and your computer requires Java 1 4 2 or higher The live game is configured so that after seven days the gameplay will be cleared and the gamespace refreshed for another set of testing moves Digital technology used by humanities scholars has focused almost exclusively on methods of sorting accessing and disseminating large bodies of materials and on certain specialized problems in computational stylistics and linguistics In this respect the work rarely engages those questions about interpretation and self aware reflection that are the central concerns for most humanities scholars and educators Digital technology has remained instrumental in serving the technical and pre critical occupations of librarians and archivists and editors But the general field of humanities education and scholarship will not take the use of Blackwell Publishing 2005 2 IVANHOE a User s Manual digital technology seriously until one demonstrates how its tools improve the ways we explore and explain aesthetic works until that is they expand our interpretational procedures Preface Radiant Textuality I Reflecting in 2001 on the recent development of Information Technology IT and the humanities I wrote that somewhat grand pronunciamento Reflecting again now I have to say with Edward Lear We think
8. field may be defined as any kind of cultural object a literary work like Wuthering Heights or The Pelican Chorus for example some set of such works say Silver Fork Novels or an historical event like Balaclava or the trial of Oscar Wilde Players make moves in the play space that centers in the chosen work The gameplay involves recomposing the material being studied so that these recompositions unfold as forms of explanation The interpreters intervene in the textual field by adding new documents by modifying documents already in the discourse field adding deleting reordering and annotating and by marking patterns of relation that these interventions generate Two kinds of critical and interpretive activities are involved one directed primarily toward the documents under study the other primarily toward the players who are laying out their lines of critical thought Players move in order to produce interpretive explanations of the target material and to set their explanations in a context where critical com parisons can be made with the interpretations generated by other players Interpretation is executed as a set of moves made under the horizon of a specific strategy and set of tactics Two important requirements constrain the moves a player will make First players must play the game en masque i e by assuming a role This is the player s fictive identity avatar in the jargon of online gaming in th
9. line 119 Still red as from the broken heart with And the air swoons around and over thee McGawnn s ROLE JOURNAL SECOND ENTRY From the first move I intended to incorporate as much of the material developed by the other players as I could imagine my way with The story in letters is the story of two contrasting views of poetry one that argues poetry is a discourse in which discrete things are made in finished forms the goblin the other that it Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 14 IVANHOE a User s Manual is an endlessly dynamic field forever generative as long as generative power exists the sun This intention and strategy now begins to be elaborated Game Move 9 AUTHOR LEONARDO 22 June 1882 Dear Mr Buchanan Bring out number weight and measure in a year of dearth Blake s diabolic aphorism could not be more aptly applied than to the question you raise in your letter I am not familiar with the first poem you mention The Can Can at Valentino s but I do know the second On the French Liberation of Italy What can you have found in it to call coarse and shocking Surely no language could be too strong that condemned the actions of that unspeakable French beast I would almost choose to believe in heaven and hell and its Nobodaddy if doing so would let me imagine him burning forever in the foulest circle of punishment devised by the God who sen
10. published his recantation from his Fleshly School attack on Rossetti in two installments the 1881 and the augmented 1883 editions The exchange will center in Jenny as it occasions their different critical thoughts about Rossetti s style and the meaning of his work The story from Leonardo Brown s point of view is also interesting because it is being written in the context of this round of IVANHOE ie Brown something of a digeratti himself wants his letter exchange and the coherence of his story to lay itself open to engagement with random related materials Game Move 4 AUTHOR LEONARDO The Goblin and the Sun 6 June 1882 Sir Shortly before he died your friend Dante Rossetti was gracious enough to accept a copy of the enclosed book where I try to make some amends for ill considered criticisms I once made about his work You would do me a great favour if you would accept a copy as well If it comes to another edition I intend to expand the text that concerns Rossetti and in this copy I have handwritten what I shall print should that new edition come about Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 10 IVANHOE a User s Manual I am moved to write partly because a great poet and artist has now passed from us partly because I have for some time wanted to see if you and I too might now be able to put away an acrimonious past for which I have been so largely responsible and partl
11. so then and we thought so still Literary and cultural humanists in particular have been slow to take the use of digital technology seriously in their regular research and teaching activities The disconnect ranges from benign neglect of IT resources to active resistance One understands and sympathizes with all of these attitudes Consider that the technology that has evolved in and around the book is an information network of remarkable depth and critical flexibility operating in a complex distributed network of museums and libraries The system has licensed collaborative work by scholars at geographical and temporal distances from each other Erasmus and Thomas More Gibbon and Tacitus Montaigne Coleridge Thoreau Benjamin and whomever wherever Book technology made all of us not least of all scholars and educators citizens of the world as we know from that famous Enlightenment phrase dare I now say word string This book tech nology has also evolved superb mechanisms economic administrative and scholarly for storing accessing and reflecting critically upon our cultural inheritance Besides the learning curve for gaining facility in the use of IT resources is very steep Besides the cost of such resources is great often indeed prohibitive Besides the resources themselves depend upon a technology in a volatile state of development Besides the standards and stability that underpin book techn
12. with interpretive action 3 No textual object is self identical because it only appears when it gets measured interpreted and that act alters the object 4 Interpretive actions are always performative deformative 5 Interpretation of a textual field proceeds at an inner standing point For more details about the potential of IVANHOE to aid the study and or teaching of literature please go to the following links http patacriticism org ivanhoe help newkey html research http patacriticism org ivanhoe help newkey html pedagogy II IVANHOE is a software application not an expository essay Like language itself or any kind of game it can only be understood by being played The meaning is in the use as Wittgenstein famously observed Readers can access a demo of IVANHOE by following the instructions at the start of the article But for those of you currently away from your computers a textual mock up of an actual gameplay may be helpful here for illustrating the kinds of interpretive strategies that might and have been used by those of us involved in the development of the software Here then is a transcription organized as a narrative of a game we played with Dante Gabriel Rossetti s dramatic monologue Jenny Three players participated Andrea Laue Bethany Nowviskie and myself The transcription gives the moves in the sequence of their occurrence with the player s role journal coming first followed by the ac
13. Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities Text Technology forthcoming 2005 an earlier piece Literary Scholarship and the Digital Future The Chron icle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education Section 2 December 13 2002 B7 B9 For a detailed explanation of these foundational ideas see my Texts in N Dimensions and Interpretation in a New Key Text Technology Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE 12 2 2003 pp 1 18 http texttechnology mcmaster ca pdf vol12_2_02 pdf Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27
14. Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 Like Leaving the Nile IVANHOE a User s Manual Jerome McGann University of Virginia How to Access IVANHOE Readers of the following article are able to access a demo version of IVANHOE with the instructions below The online medium of this article will thus enable you to observe the ideas expressed here as you read Readers should go to the website for IVANHOE at the following URL http patacriticism org ivanhoe The site supplies much general and specific information about IVANHOE that will be found useful It also has a QuickTime demo introduction to how to use the software as well as two demo games one to track how a particular game was played another to test out how to use the software yourself Go to http patacriticism org ivanhoe wantToPlay html to access a Java demo of IVANHOE After clicking Ivanhoe Demo and reaching the login screen enter an arbitrary Username and an arbitrary Password In the window displaying IVANHOE playspaces you can then choose which of the two games you want to join the archived demo of a game that was already played or the live game that you can experiment with to learn by doing Both are tied to Jerome K Jerome s late nineteenth century story Three Men in a Boat The loading process will take you through two steps the select a role page and the game information page Click the continue button
15. a I put something in that last move about the use and disposal of Jenny thinking of Jenny only as a woman a whore a VR construct but there s also the issue of the use and disposal of the text of Jenny starting with the MS that DGR put in Lizzie s coffin and then wanted back there s something here I can play on But is it too far removed from the inner standing point issue still later In my opinion Jerry just made the legendary golden move with his 5 demonstrating a full grasp of all matters at play at least in his amp my moves Pm still confused about Andrea s goals but her redundant move caps this session off charmingly I think the game s over Game Move 15 AUTHOR QUIOTL redundant Replace line 1 Jenny with Jenny McGann s ROLE JOURNAL FIFTH ENTRY These letters will complete the game play for me because they complete the story that Brown has been writing The story was conceived as a text that would only unfold Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 24 IVANHOE a User s Manual itself when it came into contact relation with the other gameplayers and their moves so as to insist as a procedural writing rule that chance be at play in the play and the writing of the story The theoretical import of the gameplay seemed to require that kind of insistence which is of course a fundamental theoretical principle of IVANHOE itself This f
16. blishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 21 further exploiting the nanotechnology that is so integral to our success in producing high quality experiences for valued customers like you In this package you will find a small vial of pleasant tasting liquid labeled licensing device We ask that you ingest the liquid no more than 24 hours before you intend to commence your new experience Compliance with this procedure will ensure that exp001881 2 is licensed to you or more properly to your DNA as sole owner Enjoy Game Move 13 AUTHOR QUIOTL and again Replace line 115 They were not gone too Jenny nay with And thy lips are full and thy brows are fair McGann s ROLE JOURNAL FOURTH ENTRY This letter is meant to mark the climactic intellectual moment in Brown s short story The reference to quantum mechanics the h constant is the switch that allows the move to make prophetic connections to IVANHOE The most impor tant specific connection is to the game moves that Beth is constructing in this round of her IVANHOE play and pari passu to make a commentary on the poetic character of the interpretive discipline licensed by IVANHOE and practiced by the players of IVANHOE in this case most specifically Beth A move that charms even MYSELF by managing both to assimilate her game moves and to flatter her with praise of their poetic character Game Move 14 AUTHOR
17. ce It s going to be interesting given my initial thought about emphasizing the speaker s subjectivity to do some moves that seem mechanistic objective Game Move 6 AUTHOR ISP INDUSTRIES Code Fragment Link this fragment to the last two moves by ISP Industries and to the lines in the source text where the following sounds and objects appear lt l Ivy here s the bit you wanted to see Just my first pass at it based on the client interview transcripts you forwarded I think this covers all his specific environmental demands but I m still not happy with the overall effect My new graphics tech B E Otney did the lion s share and it s a little Victorian for my taste I ve put all the assets in job_1881 VR enviro temp so you can check it out for yourself login jenny that s what I m calling the babe password hotbed Good luck with this guy He seems fairly self involved and you know they re the hardest to please Coffee later Ivan Whisk gt lt environment gt lt audible gt lt interlor gt lt sound type clock source shelf_2 sequence ambient gt lt sound type cage bird source misc_00798745 241_1 sequence post dawn5 gt lt interior gt lt exterior gt Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 13 lt sound type cart source window sequence post dawn1
18. ding and can only imagine that a person like Jenny has crass dreams But he is as you say bewildered But bewildered by his absurd residual Christian ideas which make a goblin of the sun for him because he thinks these sister vessels represent some kind of moral contradiction The contradiction is in himself not in these ladies We don t know much about Cousin Nell but Jenny looks quite splendid to me And as for Cousin Nell is she fated to be served up on the marriage market and is that particular institution any less despicable to you than the profession that Jenny is pursuing And then there is Lord Kelvin and his great investigations into the nature of reality I wrote Hertha in part to give expression to precisely those ideas and to link them to a philosophical tradition more ancient and far more wise than the tradition sponsored by that sadistic book the bible The laws of thermodynamics Here is what they MEAN You cannot win that is you cannot get something for nothing because matter and energy are conserved You cannot break even you cannot return to the same energy state because there is always an increase in disorder You cannot get out of the game because absolute zero is unattainable Death does not get you out of the game It merely returns you to the great sweet mother Yours A C Swinburne 25 July 1882 Sir You are disgraceful R W Buchanan Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literat
19. e playspace though more than one role can be invented and assumed by each player Because the roles are devices for increasing the level of critical awareness in the players choosing a critically useful role is an important feature of IVANHOE The role can be a real or a fictional person and it can be but need not be a person who has an identity in the playspace also called the discourse field of the game being played Second each player must keep a role journal as a running record of the player s interpretive strategy and tactics The default of the IVANHOE application is that this journal is kept secret from the other players until the end of the gameplay For certain purposes the journals may be exposed during a given game as would be useful for example in a gameplay that involved a collaborative research project In any case this journal is the record the visualization of the player s own view of what his or her Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 6 IVANHOE a User s Manual moves involved and meant It goes without saying that IVANHOE is designed specifically to set the individual s interpretive project within a context where it will be laid open to critical review by other players Briefly the conceptual foundations IVANHOE can be specified in the following set of ideas 1 Every textual field is a Bakhtinian space heteroglossial 2 Textual objects arise codependently
20. er resurrection of one of my old favorites Anactoria I wonder what you think now of that work 18 June 1882 My dear Sir Reading your remarkable poem I came to understand why your name is one of which all Europe talks from side to side It is a majestic work and I quite see what you mean by comparing it to Anactoria In the meantime I should like to raise with you a related subject having to do with Rossetti Rereading all of his work as I have been doing I am struck by the variety of ways he handles the subject of the prostitute Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 11 and its related subject the fallen woman Jenny is the chef d oeuvre of this case with its powerful investigation of the relation between the pure and the impure woman but Rossetti s ballads and tales revert to this kind of woman repeatedly A Last Confession The Bride s Prelude etc etc My failure to grasp this key matter has been in part the chief cause of what is so wrong with my original essay on Rossetti s fleshly work But in reconsidering the whole subject I have come upon a pattern or perhaps a lack of pattern in Rossetti s handling of these matters The issue began to come clear when Mr Boyce showed me his Bocca Baciata It is a great a stunning work We had an interesting conversation about it when I told him the Boccaccio story
21. erested in exploring how acts of interpretation get made and reflecting on what those acts mean or might mean The explorations come as active inter ventions in the textual field that is the target of the readers interests These interventions are then returned to the players in various kinds of visual transformations that players can use for critical reflection on the interpretative process These reflections come as computerized transfor mations of the discourse field into visualizations that expose interpretive relationships and possibilities The visualizations are mapped to three Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 5 interrelated coordinates the players acting in the field the moves executed by the players comprising sets of multiple actions and the documents that are acted upon IVANHOE creates a formalized digital space where these three coordinates interact dynamically The interactions generate a complex interpretive space whose possibilities of meaning are returned to the interpretive agents in visualizations designed to provoke critical reflection and re exploration Digital resources are particularly useful for stimulating acts of imagina tive re thinking or remediation of these kinds The software generates visualizations of the interpretive actions taken by the players as well as of the evolving state of the field undergoing interpretive transformation The
22. exts of Shakespeare to their original SHAKESPEAREAN purity Yours R W Buchanan 28 June 1882 My dear Buchanan I marvel that you a poet yourself would THINK anything substantial might be found in the flatulent breathings of that Flunkivall from Broth elsbank whose fecal I mean feeble criticism is mere diarrh a at best windy and nauseous words at worst You will recognize that what I have just written is a spiritization of the gross stuff of Mr F But enough of that foolery F like other evil things including the Supreme Evil is just too simple for imagination to play games with Poets need more serious substances more complex and wonderful things human forms divine not human abstracts Forms like Rossetti or works like Jenny Let me address your question in this way Poets aspire to become initiates of the secret language of the universe Rossetti spoke of this once as The Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 19 Monochord Only the greatest poets become masters of its vocabulary and grammar Sappho Dante Shakespeare Hugo for instance When one actually enters and uses this language then we will say that the poet is now no more a singer but a song The poet disappears song alone remains Or to revert to my first figuration the poem that you read dissolves into the unheard melodies that alone make the mortal poem possible to a
23. f you have any further requests or requirements Sincerely Ivy Bannishe K weto Director of Customer Service ISP Industries Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 12 IVANHOE a User s Manual Nowviskie s ROLE JOURNAL SECOND ENTRY I ve now sent my first two moves Am not sure what player Quiotl is up to One of those lines is transposed from another place in the text but the other is unfamiliar to me and I googled it to no avail Just saw Jerrys Swinburne Buchanan move as I was posting my 2nd move Kind of makes me wish I had gone with another idea I had which was to play as Fanny Cornforth That would have made interacting with Jerry s characters role more straightforward Since I ve rocketed myself into the future though Pll need to interact with probably everyone more obliquely thematically I worry that this game will be too short for those sorts of interactions to emerge As for my next move here s a thought Since I suspect Quiotl is doing something algorithmic maybe I should include a snippet of the code that will power the Jenny VR experience An interesting idea how to make it relevant revelatory later Okay that s done picked out all references to tangible audible environment in the poem and encoded them in every specified particularity even including sequence Was really fun to do and hopefully will highlight ease of reading Jenny as a con structed spa
24. fair tree May need in changes that may be Your children s children s charity 209 213 And this just reeks of Jerry s Swinburne style nor flagrant man swine whets his tusk Game Move 12 AUTHOR ISP INDUSTRIES Licensing Device Link the following printed on a small cardboard box to this sentence in Leonardo s third move The Valentinian sonnet that so troubles you is a licensing device that opens wilderness territories an imaginative version of what the Americans are doing these days to open their westward lands Link it to the discussion in this very dissertation Did you think I wasn t reading along Were you on deferred initialization Link it also to lines 135 138 in Jenny Jenny you know the city now A child can tell the tale there how Some things which are not yet enroll d In market lists are bought and sold Attention Mr D G Rossetti Esq Only a few bureaucratic details now stand between you and your desired experience As you are no doubt aware Inner Standing Point Industries must comply with UN regulations concerning the use and disposal of anthropomorphic vessels and their cognitive encoding systems With your purchase of exp001881 2 project code name Jenny that responsibility passes formally to you The talented team here at ISP has pioneered a new method of trans ferring and regulating the use of our vessels and their personalities by Blackwell Pu
25. he cliffs above Singing in our sleep or like the Lady of Shalott singing in our old songs II You will have noticed that I just gave a New Historicist reading of The Pelican Chorus In this case it is particularly new because the history it discovers in the poem is reimagining the future rather than reimagining Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 4 IVANHOE a User s Manual the past Both seem to me useful ways for reimagining the present which is what we should be most concerned about You think I am fooling around I am Because our present educational and scholarly scene has become no joking matter Literary and cultural studies that emperor of ice cream has no clothes A massive transforma tion is taking place in the culture around us These changes are affecting not only every aspect of our daily lives but as the example of the research library shows the core of our working and professional activities as schol ars and educators But as Marx would have said these changes have been happening behind our backs That is us we educators working in literary and cultural studies In an effort to activate the humanities and social science knowledge communities H SS the American Council of Learned Societies ACLS in 2003 funded a commission of humanists and social scientists who have been engaged with IT resources in their disciplines The commission is charged with ide
26. inal move is thus important because it turns the self reflexiveness of the whole gameplay one more time in this case the turn being upon IVANHOE itself which gets proleptically defined as an illustra tion not only of quantum laws see Move 5 above but of the basic laws of thermodynamics Game Move 16 AUTHOR LEONARDO linking to everything 19 July 1882 Dear Swinburne Adam Smith taught us a century ago that an invisible hand keeps in balance the conflicting interests of individuals working together in the world of getting and spending Wordsworth like Carlyle may have condescended to such a world and the dismal science that investigates its workings but it is as Wordsworth ALSO said the world of all of us And Smith s invisible hand is simply the manifestation in our lower world of the governing hand of God whose economy of grace is the mechanism that keeps us all as you might say in tune What you describe in your last letter is not a world of order maintained by reliable stabilities and dynamic compensations but a world where a perpetual motion machine is not only possible it is the center and driving idea of the world The findings of perhaps our greatest living natural philosopher Lord Kelvin have reconfirmed this ancient truth in his famous laws of thermodynamics The magnificence of Rossetti s poem lies in its exposure of a corrupted economy where the sacred bodies of women
27. ine selecting a line or inserting a blank line if a particular text lacks a line or stanza from the library of files based on the output of the random number generator Thus shall Quiotl create a new file a new documentary state of the poem by lifting lines one by one from other files the base set of documentary states of the poem Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 9 Game Move 2 AUTHOR QUIOTL heat Replace line 14 Poor flower left torn since yesterday with this new line 14 When the hot arm makes the waist hot Game Move 3 AUTHOR QUIOTL Replace line 127 Of the old days which seem to be with a new line 127 Nor sound is in its sluggish pace McGann s ROLE JOURNAL My character is a code name for Dan Brown author of Digital Fortress Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code I thought initially I would be A S Byatt but Brown is better in this case His most recent potboiler is a clear IVANHOE type work with as well a clear relation to Jenny and the issues I want to take up because the novel pivots around a retelling of the whole Mary Magdalene story in terms of the Grail legend The text is a story Leonardo Brown is writing titled The Goblin and the Sun The story is a series of letters exchanged by Robert Buchanan and A C Swinburne following Buchanan s initial note accompanying the gift of his book God and the Man where Buchanan
28. inks Pseudo much safer than Anon Into Maitland he shrunk But the smell of the skunk Guides the shuddering nose to Buchanan Play on Andreas new lines Problem there is that I don t have a good sense of what she s doing But I could simply start to incorporate imagery ex the hot arm makes the waist hot Given all my mechanical encoded interests I could certainly use the Blake line Jerry quotes Bring out number weight and measure in a year of dearth later Did both Game Move 10 AUTHOR ISP INDUSTRIES Bring Out Number Weight and Measure in a Year of Dearth Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 16 IVANHOE a User s Manual Link the following to Quiotl s heat move which reads Replace line 14 with this new line 14 When the hot arm makes the waist hot Leonardo s Second Move Dear Mr Buchanan Blake s diabolic aphorism could not be more aptly applied than to the question you raise in your letter and to lines 163 170 of the source text Let the thoughts pass an empty cloud Suppose I were to think aloud What if to her all this were said Why as a volume seldom read Being opened halfway shuts again So might the pages of her brain Be parted at such words and thence Close back upon the dusty sense For is there hue or shape defin d In Jenny s desecrated mind Where all contagious currents meet A Lethe of the middle street Nay i
29. kwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 15 In hideousness nor last the fifth a cow The sixth Chimera the seventh Sphinx Come now One woman France ere this frog hop have ceased And it shall be enough A toothsome feast Of blackguardism and whoresflesh and bald row No doubt for such as love those same For me I confess William and avow to thee Soft in thine ear that such sweet female whims As nasty backsides out and wriggled limbs Are not a passion of mine naturally Nor bitch squeaks nor the smell of heated quims Now surely this revolting sonnet stands oddly beside a poem like Jenny The one is intelligent and delicate throughout and all the more impres sively so given the difficulty of its subject Here the subject itself is hardly worthy of a poet s notice at all and perhaps the error lies in that choosing to write about such a thing But then to write about it in just this way Well it makes a goblin of the sun by which I mean it cheapens the very art that Rossetti dedicated himself to practicing and promoting Yours R W Buchanan NOWVISKIE S ROLE JOURNAL THIRD ENTRY 20 August 2003 my thirtieth birthday Okay I think I need to start interacting more explicitly with the other players only two too bad like Jerry did by quoting Andrea s line replacements How to do it Tease As a critic the Poet Buchanan Th
30. lishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 17 McGann s ROLE JOURNAL THIRD ENTRY This exchange obviously means to open up for discussion the whole question of the game being played here and of the very idea of this game I am also preparing for a future set of moves that will attempt an imaginative incorporation of Beth s ISP Industries coding game moves I shall do this by having Swinburne introduce the theory of poetry as a kind of code of codes that can be called into play by anyone choosing to undertake the game of poetry The Buchanan Swinburne exchange here is transitional providing a segue to a move that will envelope Beth s and Andrea s moves into this pre historic exchange Game Move 11 AUTHOR LEONARDO 24 June 1882 My dear Buchanan Rossetti s sister has a wonderful poem In an Artist s Studio which would help you through this confusion you have fallen into One face shines through all his canvasses the poem argues one face that fills his dreams In Jenny that one face is cousin Nell Jenny who are as the poem explicitly lets us know mirror images of each other Now of course everyone knows this but one wants to see that all of Rossetti s women are dream women figures of desire from that landscape of imaginative possibility Moral strictures will close your access to these figures and the doors of perception they open and represent
31. monologues and Poe s stories especially the hoaxes Rossetti here produces a portrait of the inner fantasy life of a contemporary young man a bohemian artist What is so remarkable about this work so original as Pater would insist is the investment its reverie makes in realistic materials The poem is littered with things of all kinds It develops an imagi nation of the world of the imaginary as that world is necessarily a scene of desire materially reified and alienated to an extreme of facticity The easy conversational manner is the work s principal index of that order of the ordinary It carries a coded message just as the poem is headed with a coded title This is not a poem about Jenny a prostitute but about a young man whose desire is drawn to her images to her person her imaginary self and to the paraphernalia that constellate around her like the ornaments that decorate portraitures not least of all Rossetti s It is crucial to realize that we are led to see the whole from a Rossettian inner standing point that is from within the fantasy space projected by the young man It all appears to be a real scene and is taken as real by the young man as it must be for these illusions as a Marxian analysis would show are precisely real For the young man or the poem to see them more critically would be to break the spell of the images to break the illusion that constitutes their reality The man s sympa
32. nk it s important and loaded enough that it should be my first move It s full of more stuff than I m interested in taking on too so it might provide good fodder for other players I can see somebody for instance taking up the challenge to do the Marxian analysis Some fruitful passages first the Nell thing Of the same lump as it is said For honour and dishonour made Tivo sister vessels Here is one It makes a goblin of the sun 203 206 And here s something from the poem for my Jenny as bot reading Let the thoughts pass an empty cloud Suppose I were to think aloud What if to her all this were said Why as a volume seldom read Being opened halfway shuts again 160 So might the pages of her brain Be parted at such words and thence Close back upon the dusty sense For is there hue or shape defin d In Jenny s desecrated mind Where all contagious currents meet A Lethe of the middle street Nay it reflects not any face Nor sound is in its sluggish pace But as they coil those eddies clot 170 And night and day remember not 155 170 I think PI call myself Inner Standing Point Industries Game Move 1 AUTHOR ISP INDUSTRIES Insert into the discourse field the following passage from page 102 of Jerome J McGann s Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 8 IVANHOE a User s Manual Working from Browning s
33. ntifying what problems and barriers hinder the use of IT in H SS disciplines and with assessing the needs of humanists and social scientists who will be using the distributed IT network for their everyday research and pedagogy When the commission issues its report in mid 2006 it will offer a set of detailed and practical recommendations Included in those recommendations will be a call for developing IT resources for the interpretive investigations that have been that always will be central to H SS research and study Unless IT can provide scholars and teachers with methodologies and technical applications that overgo what we already have from book technologies why should we take any interest in it IT What we need are Information Technologies that precisely do not ask us to see H SS materials as information or information objects IT may indeed must treat H SS materials as information at the technical and computational level but at the level of perception and thought at the level of their human uses the materials must have their status as knowledge exposed and interpretively transformed How can IT help us in that ancient pursuit Enter IVANHOE Since Interpretation is the oldest song we sing in literary and cultural studies IVANHOE scores that song for digital instruments The goal is to gain clarity about what goes on in acts of interpretation IVANHOE is an online playspace for multiple readers int
34. ologies are known and reliable None of that can be said right now of IT resources So why go there The answer is we have no choice And here is why another pronunciamento In the next 50 years the entirety of our inherited archive of cultural works will have to be re edited within a network of digital storage access and dissemination This system which is already under development is transnational and transcultural The library especially the research library is a cornerstone if not the very foundation of modern humanities It is undergoing right now a complete digital transformation Do we understand what that means what problems it brings how they might be addressed Theoretical as well as very practical Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 3 discussions about these matters have been going on for years and decisions are taken every day Yet digital illiteracy puts many of us on the margin of conversations and actions that affect the center of our cultural interests as citizens and our professional interests as scholars and educators Which brings me back to Edward Lear and The Pelican Chorus The poem seems to me a cautionary tale with a startling relevance for ourselves humanities scholars and educators You remember the poem The King and Queen of the Pelicans have a daughter Dell They throw a ball in her honour and all the foules as Chauce
35. physical participates in this order and the order is so to speak coded into each element of the universe at all scales and levels of its being We speak of the characters of men because ancient wisdom understands that if we shift our view in just the right way we can see that we all the living and the dead as well as the yet to be born are characters in what Shelley called the great cyclic poem that is the life of the human inspirited earth hertha h earth our hearth and home But all of life is based in a living language that unfolds itself in and as the meaningful realities good as well as evil that daily unfold time s cyclic poem These realities are meaningful because of the h constant the human constant the constant that GIVES them that crucial character the character of meaning One day this h constant will be widely known In this context you can see that the poet is the incarnation of the h constant the character in this cyclic poem that constantly puts the poem s meaning into presence the character that constantly lets us know that the poem IS meaningful We simply cannot make sense of the pro found orders of reality without employing the h constant Quotidian chaos daily obscures this profound meaning from us The office of the poet is to expose it The poet has thus a godlike mission but in exercising it he operates immanently from an inner standing point
36. ppear Dante moved from Latin to his Italian vernacular in order to dramatize this basic poetic requirement that we speak only finally in our mother tongue the Monochord that keeps all the songs in tune Blake said that his works were the dictations of Eternity When we enter that symphonic space we become the lyres of the universe as Shelley begged to be in his incomparable west wind ode At that point the poetry declares and per forms itself And it is entirely possible indeed I should it is a demanded necessity that the reader and even the critic of poetry aspire to that condition of musicality When such a sympathetic fusion is achieved one no longer speaks of emending texts or correcting errors The poetry reveals its secret articulations through the dictated judgments of its mortal devotee Yours A C Swinburne 4 July 1882 My dear Swinburne Yours is a mystical theory of poetry and even of criticism that I can scarcely comprehend much less either agree or disagree with I know that when I have written something and when I see it through to its published form I am vexed if someone some ridiculous printer or presumptuous publisher or officious critic should alter or denigrate what I have chosen It is after all MY poem Or are you telling me that when you submit your poems for publication you don t CARE how careful the printers treat your work I can scarcely believe it And the printers are simply the lo
37. r would say come including the king of the Cranes all grandly dressed He falls for Dell she falls for him they get married and like the lovers in The Eve of St Agnes they flee far away in this case Leaving the Nile for stranger plains I am sure this is a prophetic allegory describing the current state of the humanities Aren t you Who can miss the point made so clear in the poem s final trenchant set of verses And far away in the twilight sky We heard them singing a lessening cry Farther and farther till out of sight And we stood alone in the silent night Often since in the nights of June We sit on the sand and watch the moon She dwells by the streams of the Chankly Bore And we probably never shall see her more Ploftskin Pluffskin Pelican jee We think no Birds so happy as we Plumpskin Ploshkin Pelican jill We think so then and we thought so still Are we humanists sitting on the sands of the Nile and watching the moon It is true that no one knows what life will be like by the streams of the Chankly Bore over near the famous if equally mysterious great Gromboolian plain But we do know that those places are there awaiting our arrival Yet we stay here like the pelicans thinking no birds so happy as we do we think that and singing as if our old songs will have no ending do we think that too We live on the Nile The Nile we love By night we sleep on t
38. shing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 18 IVANHOE a User s Manual We are talking about poetry here Buchanan not morality those wastes of moral law as Blake called them How could we endure such places survive them triumph over them without poetry and its intrepid clarities Yours A C Swinburne 26 June 1882 My dear Swinburne I don t see how anyone could POSSIBLY print for public circulation that Valentinian sonnet Don t speak to me about doors of perception here that is just beautiful and ineffectual talk There are lines in that sonnet that would simply have to be elided if it were to be read at all You and I can discuss these matters in the privacy of this sympathetic exchange But if we care for Rossetti s reputation we would have to censor these aspects of his work I should like to leave that subject aside however and ask you about something else you wrote in a previous letter It is quite related I believe to this matter as well You wrote that every line in any of Rossetti s poems and presumably in any poet s work ought to lay itself open to revision and reimagining But then I ask you By ANYONE Where does the poet s authority stand Your own view of Shakespeare s texts the correction of those texts is well known Are your emendations to be read as Swinburne s imaginative flights as Mr Furnivall maintains or are they moves to restore the t
39. t his own son to death As with all poets Rossetti s work is an imaginative field whose true range has to be explored by the poet himself Most men prefer to avoid the territories of their souls that they fear to discover and confront Rossetti s imaginative world was great because it was larger and hence more dangerous than most He was a meticulous imaginative adventurer reworking and revising revisiting reconsidering everything he wrote repeatedly Jenny itself as he told me several times went through numerous redraftings revisings even wholesale recastings I cast my eyes over that magnificent poem even now and I can imagine Rossetti seeing every line laying itself open to other possibilities I cast my own sortes virgilianae over the text and think well what if I rewrote the line Still red as from the broken heart as And the air swoons around and over thee or the line Poor flower left torn since yesterday as Blossom of the eternal May Whole new ranges of meaning begin to unfold their possibilities And that is the way Rossetti thought and worked Yours A C Swinburne 23 June 1882 Dear Swinburne if I may What you say is all very well said but you miss my point which I shall try to clarify by quoting the sonnet you don t know The first a mare the second twixt bow wow And pussy cat a cross the third a beast To baffle Buffon the fourth not the least Blac
40. t reflects not any face Nor sound is in its sluggish pace But as they coil those eddies clot And night and day remember not From Noah Kevin Bitwyse lt bitwyse ispindustries com gt Date Wednesday Aug 20 2103 08 47 56 AM US Eastern To B E Otney lt otney ispindustries com gt Cc Ivy Bannishe K weto lt ivy ispindustries com gt Ivan Whisk lt whisk ispindustries com gt Subject Re heat Otney I understand you re doing graphics for Ivan on this Jenny project We re running into some trouble down here in Sensorimotor Apps Maybe you can cast some light The issue is that heat transfer ie from the user s body to the vessel is causing some artifacting We can t figure out if the problem is in the vessel s body heat programming or if it s a graphical glitch but when ever for instance the user s hot arm makes the vessel s waist hot we re getting a weird cycling of day night ambient light from the window and it s completely throwing the vessel off She s basically not sure whether to wake up or drift off And hey I don t need to tell you that the client isn t paying for her to sleep Could you check into this ASAP What I specifically need are your ambient numbers some data on how the graphics handle weight it could possibly be the pressure on the vessel and not heat transfer and whatever probability measure for artifacting you re working from Noah Blackwell Pub
41. that Rossetti invokes in the title he gave the picture The story rather shocked Boyce because he was unaware of the tale and only knew the picture as a portrait of Rossetti s beautiful housekeeper Then more recently a friend of mine who ran with the Rossetti circle when The Germ was created and for some ten or a dozen years afterwards showed me some unpublished poems Rossetti wrote in those years including the The Can Can at Valentino s written from Paris and After the French Liberation of Italy These works do seem to me coarse and shocking and have brought a kind of setback in my reassessment of Rossetti s work Do you know these works More generally what do you think of this whole issue I would be grateful for any of your thoughts about this matter Yours sincerely R W Buchanan GAME MOVE 5 AUTHOR ISP INDUSTRIES Insert this letter into the discourse field and link it to the move entitled A Coded Message Dear Sir Thank you for your recent inquiry Our technicians report that work proceeds on schedule and that you may expect the experience to be available for download no later than Saturday of next week We are pleased to have been able to incorporate the images and dimensional scan Nell img zip and Nell ds you provided us with no measurable delay to shipment It was fortunate that they so closely matched our pre fabricated model practically two sister vessels Please don t hesitate to inform us i
42. thetic attitude including his self ironies are not critical moves they are blocking devices that serve to maintain the illusion of objectivity And so it happens unawakened from its dream of life the poem draws the lineaments of that supreme world of illusion we like to call the objective world the world as will and representation reality Laue s ROLE JOURNAL My role is a computer named Quiotl who will run an application I call an Intentions Engine This tool will generate from multiple texts one text one document instance composed of pieces of each of the multiple texts chosen at random When run on several documentary versions of Jenny the Intentions Engine renders a version of the text that we may imagine the author might one day have intended even if it was never executed This is of course being done tongue in cheek poking fun at editorial efforts to recover authorial intention when editing a text A sort of extreme editorial eclecticism The Intentions Engine is an XSLT transform sheet keyed to the xml line field lt I gt It take as input XML files of the texts and it outputs a single new XML file Working from Rossetti Archive data I am making XML files of the Delaware MS the Fitzwilliam holograph the 1870 edition of the Poems in addition to the source text with which the game began the 1881 text The XSLT transform sheet is built around a random number generator It will assemble the new poem line by l
43. tual move executed by the player Gameplay was initiated with a move by Nowviskie An IVANHOE Session Played with D G Rossetti s Jenny Players Quiotl Andrea Laue 5 moves Leonardo Jerome McGann 6 moves ISP Industries Bethany Nowviskie 5 moves Initial Discourse Field Jenny text taken from the 1881 edition of Rossetti s Poems A New Edition Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 IVANHOE a User s Manual 7 Nowviskig s ROLE JOURNAL Role Not sure yet Have some notion of a sci fi VR treatment meant to highlight the Rossettian concept of the inner standing point and degree to which all the speaker s rumination and description comes from his own brain is completely subjective and is no real reflection of Jenny herself no better than the scratched up pier glass This sci fi or VR notion came to me as I was reading a passage in The Game That Must Be Lost will probably need to insert it into the discourse field maybe even as my first act to give others a better sense of what Pm doing I notice when I play this game I tend to like being mysterious with my first few moves before revealing my drift but I don t think that goes over well with other players whose attention is already taxed with their own and others moves So Pil try being more obvious maybe even patently obvious this time Here s the passage from page 102 Now having typed that out I thi
44. ur vocation in these terms explains what is mistaken in your last letter Of course I or any poet will insist so long as we are alive TO insist upon the authoritative characters that have been transcribed through our offices Who else would dare to assume that obligation And who else but other poetic souls would dare to assume the obligation of preserving the integrity of our poetic inheritance redeeming from decay those visitations of human divinity Mr Flunkivall that pedantic turdsmith Never Yet I do foresee days when the sacred characters of poems like Jenny will have their depthless secrets exposed through inspirational fires bodies electric as the great Walt Whitman calls them fired up by poetic spirits we can scarcely imagine Then shall we find our works translated and transported through new codes and characters new fields new types new entities new applications Ever yours A C Swinburne Nowviskie s ROLE JOURNAL FIFTH ENTRY 22 August 2003 With the move I posted last night Licensing Device I realized that a lot of what Pm doing now is not only playing on the concept of the inner standing point how it s both all about subjectivity and yet the construction of it just like its results in the poem can seem like the height of objectivity but Pm also tending to point out perhaps unintentional mechanistic phraseology in Jerry s moves as well Cool Woo here an ide
45. ure Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 26 IVANHOE a User s Manual 26 July 1882 Mr Buchanan Are you not then to become my particular friend like the angel on the last plate of Blake s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Alas the redemption of the world seems as far away as ever I trust in any case that you have profited somehow from your little sojourn in the nether world of imagination You are welcome any time A C Swinburne IV The game with Jenny was played in a blogger space before we had developed the Java based IVANHOE software that organizes the playspace and generates the interpretive visualizations In developing IVANHOE we tested the conception with different literary works a dozen or so times on paper and in blogger spaces With the development of the Java software we have continued to test the conception through a series of further games Being a gamespace and therefore interactive IVANHOE is best under stood by being used As outlined above a pair of dynamic demonstration games have therefore been made available the URL is http patacriticism org ivanhoe wantToPlay html and a QuickTime movie is also available see http www patacriticism org ivanhoe demo html See also the demo put together by Laura Mandell on the Romantic Circles online Pedagogy Commons site http www rc umd edu pedagogies commons innovations mcegann3 html More information is also available at http patacriticism org
46. wliest of intervening agencies Or do you embrace your critics arguments for altering what you have done You do not as I know only too well I think perhaps that your previous letter s arguments may perhaps have been made in a flyting way Yours R W Buchanan NOWVISKIE S ROLE JOURNAL FOURTH ENTRY 21 August 2003 Struck by Jerry s phrase licensing device given context of my moves Also full sentence in which it appears likens poetry s license to the opening of the American west What can I do with that Going to give the poem another read through because Td really like all my moves to respond to IT explicitly and Blackwell Publishing 2005 Literature Compass 2 2005 VI 149 1 27 20 IVANHOE a User s Manual not just other players moves So here are some gleanings This first one makes me think of licensed purchased imagination When she would lie in fields and look Along the ground through the blown grass And wonder where the city was Far out of sight whose broil and bale They told her then for a child s tale Jenny you know the city now A child can tell the tale there how Some things which are not yet enroll d In market lists are bought and sold 130 138 I also just noticed this which might help me tie the futuristic stuff Pm doing to the original context of Jenny Yet Jenny till the world shall burn 210 It seems that all things take their turn And who shall say but this
47. y because I have only just finished reading your Tristram poem whose majesty has overwhelmed me I presume much by this intrusion especially with the sadness of Rossetti s death so close upon us but your reputation for generosity has moved me to this sin a sin far less to be regretted than the injuries that in the past I have done to you and yours Robert Buchanan 14 June 1882 Sir I have read your book with great interest of course with greatest interest in those parts devoted to the work of my friend who must have been gratified to know that one such as yourself came to such a recon sideration of his great work He bestrode our narrow world like a colossus and we shall not see his like again As for yourself your regret is under standable and your apology no more than the situation requires The prose addition to your text is quite splendid Those personal matters aside I will also say that not many men would have the intellectual courage to set about such a thorough re examination of their thoughts and ideas For this I honour you as I honour you for the courage and the candour of your letter Was it not the great Galilean traduced by the churches who took his name in vain who told us to rejoice more in the recovery of one lost sheep than in the saved company of the ninety nine Yours C Swinburne PS I am of course more than a little pleased at your response to Tristram Perhaps you recognize in it a bett

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