ENGL 340 - Literature and Literary Study in the Digital Age

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
Digital technology is transforming the way we produce, distribute, and study literature. Under the umbrella term “digital humanities,” scholars are building electronic archives that put literary texts in historical, biographical, geographical, and other contexts; using computational tools to analyze and visualize the form and content of texts; creating new platforms for scholarly communication about texts; and trying to understand the larger cultural impact of the digital revolution. This course undertakes a close examination of all these developments while also introducing students to basic tools for digital communication, preservation, and textual analysis.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 203.