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Expanding the history of humanities computing: Hugh Kenner's conversational criticism.

This article posits that a novel and humanistic model of computing—'conversational computing'—would emerge in the 1960s which, despite being largely forgotten today, proved extremely influential in computing and wider culture. I examine the metaphor and model of conversation embedded in this earlier...

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Published in:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 679 - 696
Main Author: Roach, Rebecca
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2023
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Criticism
Critics
Metaphor
Nineteen sixties
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