Course: Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading

In this video Philipp Schweighauser reviews the course, thanks you for your participation, and bids you all farewell. Please give us your feedback We’d be very grateful if you would …

When Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin published ‘Remediation: Understanding New Media’ in 1999, it was immediately clear that their title referred to Marshall McLuhan’s earlier ‘Understanding Media: The Extensions …

In this video Philipp Schweighauser discusses Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s notion of remediation. Remediation refers to the dynamic relation between older and newer media and describes the way …

Since the 1980s, scholars of modern literature have begun to devote increasing attention to those features of books that medievalists and Renaissance scholars have always considered crucial: the stuff that …

This video is designed to shed light on why the material qualities of books and other reading surfaces are of great significance. As Philipp Schweighauser explains why the stuff that …

In the last two steps you learned about Prof. Hugues Marchal’s Euterpe project, a computer-assisted examination of French scientific poetry from the Enlightenment to the beginning of the 20th century. …

Marshall McLuhan had a massive impact on the way we think about practically every aspect of cultural exchange. He turned our attention to the medial, material, and technological preconditions of …

In his famous Playboy interview, Marshall McLuhan elaborates on his most powerful statement that ‘the medium is the message’ (Understanding 7) by noting that ‘the content or message of any …

This is the second part of the video about the Euterpe project, a computer-assisted examination of French scientific poetry from the Enlightenment to the beginning of the 20th century. Watch …

Professor Hugues Marchal presents his Euterpe project, a computer-assisted examination of French scientific poetry from the Enlightenment to the beginning of the 20th century that relies on quantitative data analysis …

Philipp Schweighauser introduces you to the Stanford Literary Lab, a team of researchers that use scientific methods and computer programs to identify recurring patterns and large-scale historical developments in literature. …

In his essay ‘Conjectures on World Literature’ (2000) and his books Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005) and Distant Reading (2013), the Italian scholar Franco Moretti …

Distant reading refers to a professional reading method that relies heavily on computer programs. This strategy, developed by Franco Moretti, represents an attempt at utilizing big data analytics for the …

New Historicism is, and has been over the last three decades, a leading theoretical school in the humanities. Learn about how it reinvented the way we think about the relation …

The literary-historical contexts of a work include, among others, the institutional aspects of its publication, its relation to the dynamics of various literary and artistic movements, and the connection of …