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

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 …

While modernism was a literary and artistic movement to which Pound belonged, modernity names the broader socioeconomic context in which modernism flourished. Modernity is a multifaceted term whose origins are …

Exploring the historical contexts of a literary text is one path to understanding. In this video Philipp Schweighauser discusses the question of how Ezra Pound’s poem ‘In a Station of …

Bob Stein is the founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book. On the institute’s website, he has posted a useful essay entitled ‘A Taxonomy of Social Reading: …

Social reading is a form of collaborative reading that takes place online. It incorporates discussion into the reading process and thus turns it into a community experience. In Week 1, …

At the beginning of the chapter in How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012) that focuses on hyper reading, N. Katherine Hayles cites several U. S. studies that …

This week, you have learned about the six reading strategies in the digital age that we will cover. Each of the remaining weeks is dedicated to one of these strategies …

Continuing where we left off, this article briefly outlines three further hyper reading strategies described by James J. Sosnoski in ‘Hyper-Readers and Their Reading-Engines’ (trespassing, de-authorizing, fragmenting) and two further …

In previous steps, we took a good look at the first five of James Sosnoski’s eight hyper reading strategies: filtering, skimming, pecking, imposing, and filming. Watch Philipp Schweighauser outline the …

In his essay ‘Hyper-Readers and Their Reading-Engines’, James J. Sosnoski defines hyper reading as ‘reader-directed, screen-based, computer-assisted reading’ (167) and outlines eight hyper reading strategies: filtering, skimming, pecking, imposing, filming, …

When reading online texts on computers, we typically engage in hyper reading. This way of reading has probably become the dominant or at least the most frequently used reading strategy …

To look up terms and concepts relevant to the study of literature − from metaphor to deconstruction and beyond − M. H. Abrams’s A Glossary of Literary Terms is an …

To see the enduring power of close reading at work, one great resource is Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois’s Close Reading: The Reader (2003), an essay collection that brings together …

Close reading is one of the most widespread scholarly methods in literary criticism and constitutes an indispensable tool, the bread and butter, for professional readers. Learn about its origins and …

Next to the lay reading strategies discussed in the previous steps, there are also reading strategies employed by professional readers of literary texts. This video explores four of them. Philipp …