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Description
Digital Textual Studies allows to take a macroscopic view and employ 鈥渄istant reading鈥� (Moretti, 2000), assessing literary corpora of a scale that no researcher could read in their lifetime, as a complementary tool to the tried and tested 鈥渃lose reading鈥� of individual works. Building on technologies from traditional corpus and computational linguistics, this module will introduce students to Digital Textual Studies, including technologies such as e.g. stylometry, authorship attribution, tracing of literary influences etc.
The aims of this module are to expand and complement students鈥� range of interpretative skills by digital methods for literary analysis, furnish them with the necessary foundations, and to spur their imagination about the intersection of literary studies and computational analysis. It will employ a 鈥榟ands-on鈥� approach, which will involve (team-based) coding. No previous experience is needed, just openness and willingness to learn. Students will employ their skills and imagination to develop their own student-led digital projects, using literary texts from their background discipline(s).
After successfully following this module students will:
- Have been engaged in research-based teaching and learning,
- Have acquired new skills and become acquainted with new tools approaches for textual analysis,
- Be able to conduct student-led small-scale digital projects on their own,
- Be able to theorise 鈥渢he digital鈥�.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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