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Digital Literary Studies is a new field that uses digital technology to interpret literature and its cultural context, and publish research findings. The course includes close readings of texts as well as applied aspects to offer students a broad overview of the field and prepare them for Honours work in Digital Humanities. No technical skills are required.
The contemporary world is an increasingly digital world and - although we often forget it - that world is constructed almost entirely from text. Every webpage we read relies on electronic text to present information to us. Amazon, Google Books and other services now offer millions of ebooks to us ‘on demand’. Although we might not know it, even the videos on YouTube are delivered to us embedded within a text-based medium. This course explores what that means for literary scholarship, drawing on several decades of work in combination with the latest thinking from the digital humanities community. We’ll explore the role of literary studies in the broader digital humanities movement, learn what a digital text is, explore different methods of reading, and discuss the new theories and methods that make digital literary studies one of the most interesting field in the discipline today. As well as exploring the digital world from a critical perspective, we’ll also explore how high quality digital texts are made and play with some cutting-edge tools. No technical skills are necessary, only openness to new ways of thinking.
15 points of ENGL at 200 level with a B pass, or30 points of ENGL at 200 level, orany 45 points at 200 level from the Arts schedule
DIGI301
James Smithies
Christopher Thomson
The main textbook is open and online
Domestic fee $1,340.00
International fee $5,700.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .