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69365-01 - Seminar: Digital Literary Studies: Digital Methods to Literary Data Analysis (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2023 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | José Luis Losada Palenzuela (joseluis.losadapalenzuela@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | It is becoming increasingly common to consider a poem, a novel, a theater play as data. Digital Literary Studies analyse these data with the help of computers, using interdisciplinary approaches, digital tools, techniques and infrastructures. This raises new questions for literary studies in areas such as the evolution of the canon, literary style and authorship, textual editing and criticism, the representation of literary space, intertextuality, the interaction of fictional characters: How can digital methods be integrated into literary studies? How to accurately analyse intertextuality or sentiment in literature? How to perform authorship attribution through stylometry? How to create literary corpora for data analysis? How to perform distant analysis on literary corpora? In the seminar we will explore these questions by reflecting on the most common concepts of the discipline (text as data, distant reading, statistical methods,...), applying them to concrete literary examples from the European multilingual tradition and putting them directly into practice, from the perspective of a literary scholar, with the help of digital methods and tools. The course does not require any prior knowledge or special computer skills. It is designed to introduce students of literature to the basics of the digital methods. |
| Learning objectives | - To familiarise students with the main outputs of the discipline; - to provide insights into the analysis, visualisation and interpretation of literary data using the most common methods and tools; - to develop students' digital skills in markup languages, the R programming language and advanced text editors; - to prepare students for independent evaluation of digital methods applied to literature. |
| Bibliography | The reading list will be made available during the course. The following list is intended to give you an idea of the subject matter: Calvo Tello, José. 2021. The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag / Bielefeld University Press. Eve, Martin Paul. 2022. The digital humanities and literary studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Moretti, Franco. 2017. Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative Formalism from the Stanford Literary Lab. London: n+1 Foundation. Weitin, Thomas. 2021. Digitale Literaturgeschichte: eine Versuchsreihe mit sieben Experimenten. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. |
| Admission requirements | abgeschlossene PS-Stufe |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| unregelmässig | See individual dates | ||
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 29.09.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Friday 13.10.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Friday 27.10.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Friday 10.11.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Friday 17.11.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Friday 08.12.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Deutsches Seminar, Seminarraum 5 |
| Friday 15.12.2023 | 09.15-12.00 | Maiengasse, Raum 104 |
| Modules |
Modul: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft: Forschungsorientiertes Studium (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology (Start of studies before 01.08.2022)) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul: Literaturwissenschaftliche Praxis (Editionsphilologie, Literarisches Übersetzen, Literaturkritik) (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Wahlbereich Master Deutsche Philologie: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Students must write one review of a digital project and/or submit a practical application of a tool or method. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften |