REL 370.001
Digital Texts and the Humanities
T | 3:30-5:50
PRH 210
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How does Google know word frequencies from 1850 – https://books.google.com/ngrams? How might scholars use machines to read differently? This course explores digital texts: how they’re made and the questions we can ask with and about them. We’ll assemble and analyze a digital corpus, learn some computer programming, and discuss the implications of treating words as data.
Readings
Brown, Candy Gunther
The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880
University of North Carolina Press, 2004
9780807855119
Piper, Andrew
Enumerations: Data and Literary Study
University of Chicago Press, 2018
9780226568751
Resources
Bode, Katherine. A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
We will be using the Open Access version – https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/5q47rp73f#toc