Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading
This online course explored a variety of strategies for reading literature in the digital age, among them close reading, historical contextualization, hyper reading, social reading, distant reading, and surface reading.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Philipp Schweighauser
Professor of American and General Literatures
University of Basel
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the different lay and professional reading strategies that are available for reading literature today.
- Describe the various media in which we read literature in the digital age.
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of different reading strategies.
- Apply the core method of literary studies: close reading.
- Investigate the various strategies you use on a daily basis as you read online texts.
- Engage in a cooperative form of online reading called social reading.
- Compare two forms of historical readings of literary texts: historical and literary-historical contextualization.
- Discuss the uses and limitations of distant reading, a recent scholarly approach to literary texts that relies on big data and computer analysis.
- Report on your own distant reading experiment, using the Google Ngram Viewer.
- Explore approaches to literary texts that do not seek to interpret them but focus on their surface and materiality.
Syllabus
- The various media in which we read literature in the digital age
- The strengths and weaknesses of different reading strategies
- The core method of literary studies: close reading
- The various strategies you use on a daily basis as you read online texts
- A cooperative form of online reading called social reading
- Forms of historical readings of literary texts: historical and literary-historical contextualization
- Uses and limitations of distant reading, a recent scholarly approach to literary texts that relies on big data and computer analysis
- Approaches to literary texts that do not seek to interpret them but focus on their surface and materiality
Issued on 21st May 2021
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