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A Study on the Digital Media Modeling for Extended Texts of English Poetry: Focusing on the Notion of Mediality

&nbsp;&nbsp;After the invention of digital computing in the middle of the twentieth century, the new textual technologies have enabled more flexible and powerful mediums than any other preceding medium. Due to the digital system using the database, the notion of text itself breaks down into the interface and the storage medium, and these digital media texts can be constructed on the basis of multimedia like image, sound, and moving pictures. And these current textual conditions have changed the concepts of what we used to call "reading" and "writing." In these contexts, I propose to model the digital media text of Blake&quot;s composite arts which are composed of poems and illustrations with adapting the notion of digital poetics to transcend the demarcations of the two mediums, words and images.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;My study is focusing on examination of the relationship between the mediums in the traditional art history and aesthetic contexts, and the digital media modeling of Blake&quot;s arts, I think, has to be done on the ground of theoretical approach of remediation and intermediality. The interdependent relatedness of word and image has been explored by the many artists and theoreticians including Blake for a long time, and iconology studies and ekphrasis tradition were also reflections of the deep interests in the concept of mediality. Blake&quot;s engraving and printing methods, which he called "infernal method" himself, were totally different from his contemporary printing method and technology that had begun since renaissance period and had followed the Ramism whose crucial core was the logic of dichotomy. Blake&quot;s notion of medium and dichotomy is obvious in his printing methods and arts, in terms that he rejects conventional printing methods using the apparent dichotomy principles, and he accomplishes his own chaosthetics through melting the surfaces away and displaying the infinite which he really wants to represent. For these reasons, Blake&quot;s arts are very appropriate for the digital media modeling to embody the materiality in the virtual space of medias which enables for us to experience the mutisensory cognition of Blake&quot;s arts. My pilot modeling is animated version of printed text and this remediation can open a new dimension of the literary texts. But the interdisciplinary study and the application method of this modeling for the pedagogical tools should be considered more in the future.