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Literary Writing Processes in the Digital Age: Challenges for Textual Scholarship book cover

1st Edition

Literary Writing Processes in the Digital Age Challenges for Textual Scholarship

Edited By Karina Dalen-Oskam, Floor Buschenhenke, Marielle Leijten, Vincent Neyt, Lamyk Bekius, Dirk Hulle, Luuk Waes Copyright 2027
224 Pages 10 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Literary Writing Processes in the Digital Age examines what happens to the creative process when authors write with computers rather than with pen and paper. Taking readers behind the scenes of contemporary literature writing it uncovers the often-invisible processes that shape the books we read. It explores writing in an era where creation begins - and often remains - on the screen.   This... Read more

Table of contents

1. Introduction
Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Lamyk Bekius, Floor Buschenhenke, Mariëlle Leijten, Vincent Neyt, Dirk Van Hulle, and Luuk Van Waes

2. ‘At my convenience’: Self-archiving and writing practices of Dutch and Flemish writers
Floor Buschenhenke

3. A continuous flow of alternating processes: Different perspectives on the concept of phases in digital literary writing
Floor Buschenhenke and Lamyk Bekius

4. Revealing revision in printouts and keystroke data: Examples from text genetic dossiers from the early days of home computing to the present
Lamyk Bekius, Vincent Neyt, and Dirk van Hulle

5. Exploring editorial influence in the creative writing process
Everdien Rietstap

6. Tracking stylistic differences in the writing process of Gie Bogaert’s novel Roosevelt
Karina van Dalen-Oskam and Lamyk Bekius

7. Poetic writing processes and what to learn from them
Victoria Johansson

8. A plea for more collaboration
Lamyk Bekius and Isabelle Van Ongeval

Biography

Karina van Dalen-Oskam is head of the Computational Literary Studies Research Group at Huygens Institute (KNAW) and professor in Computational Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the analysis of writing style in fiction using computational methods. In 2023 she published the monograph The Riddle of Literary Quality.

 

Lamyk Bekius is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research interests include genetic criticism, born-digital archives, keystroke logging, and computational literary studies. 

 

Floor Buschenhenke is interested in literature and creative writing processes. She has a PhD from University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and currently works in IT consultancy.

 

Mariëlle Leijten is a full professor of Professional Communication at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She studies how professionals and students write in complex digital environments, with and without generative AI. Her research focuses on (multilingual) source based writing, workplace writing processes, and how AI can support writing. She also co-founded the keystroke logging tool Inputlog.

 

Vincent Neyt is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research interests include genetic criticism, digital humanities, digital scholarly editing, and Stephen King. 

 

Dirk Van Hulle is Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. He is author of Genetic Criticism (2022) and Principal Investigator of the ERC project ‘MARGINAL: Modern Authors Reading: Genesis in Authors’ Libraries’.

 

Luuk Van Waes is professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research focuses on writing processes, in digital and professional contexts. He co-developed Inputlog, a keystroke logging tool to study writing behavior, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Writing Research.

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