ENGL 3318 - Literature as Data

Credits: 3

Examines a range of theoretical and technological approaches that allow us to think about literature as data and what that means for literary interpretation. By interrogating theoretical and practical approaches to using technology to analyze literary texts and comparing these with traditional literary scholarship, this course taps into big questions about how – if at all – digital methods change literary studies, and the extent to which thinking about literature as data really is a new idea. Recommended prerequisite: ENGL 2318. (*updated* 10/28/2019; effective Spring 2020)