The Waste Land and TEI

In expectation of our class on TEI tomorrow I thought I would share a project I was part of during my undergrad course The Digital Text taught by Professor Adam Hammond. As a class we used TEI to encode T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. In part we did this by tagging literary features such as repetition, outside quotations and echoes. Another way we worked to interpret and enrich the text through TEI was by establishing different speakers (or what we labeled "voices") within the poem and where each voice could be heard. Our final product was an online version of the text where the reader can highlight the various textual features and voices. 

Given our blogging question this week I thought this project was a good example of how digitization and textual encoding can be used to both interpret and add value to a text. It may also be a case where encoding is used to privilege some textual features over others. 

You can access and learn more about the project here: http://hedothepolice.org/ 
You can find our encoded version of The Waste Land  by hovering over the heading "WHAT THE CLASS SAID" and selecting "Read The Waste Land  as Divided by the Class"