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#close-reading
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
Moretti's distant reading
The New Critics gave us close reading, the engagement with the minute verbal nuances of a text, and the mode still thrives—Helen Vendler’s studies of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Dickinson’s poems are classic contemporary examples. But as Moretti argues in “Conjectures on World…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and structures, or adumbrating trends
Further, it is not merely the quantification of research which was traditionally qualitative that is offered with these approaches. Rather, as Unsworth argues, we should think of these computational ‘tools as offering provocations, surfacing evidence, suggesting patterns and…
Traditional humanities focus on a fraction of the literary field
As Moretti (2007) points out, the traditional humanities focuses on a minimal fraction of the literary field ... [a] canon of two hundred novels, for instance, sounds very large for nineteenth-century Britain (and is much larger than the current one), but is still less than one…
The humanities require new, appropriate, and digitally focused methods
The sceptic who states that data mining and pattern recognition in works of literature debases close reading ignores the prevalent mood of human action in a time of computational ubiquity – close reading has a role in the humanities, but it will not deal with the sprawl of…