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

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this video Philipp Schweighauser takes you to Basel’s University Psychiatric Clinics and tells you about Ezra Pound’s mysterious connection with this institution, his hospitalization for mental health issues, as …