Digital Humanities & World Literature
feminist history and gender research perspective
Gender
Transnational and Multilingual Digital History
bibliographical data/ reception texts
Anne-Birgitte Rønning (2014)
Literary heritage of languages
empirical studies, beyond canon, new material
traditional literature
canon formation
Objective: non-canonical (Western) perspective on literature
historicization of the genre
interpretative limitations (Serlen, 2010)
methodological problems
Biggest reference: Moretti (2005 & 2013)
computational methods enabling quantitative studies of large corpuses in the case of digital humanities
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canon formation
pre-exitance of a corpus
literary canon
new historicist and ethnic studies (80s & 90s)
(Higonnet; de Jong & Koevoets, 2009)
gendered canon
problematic quantity
forgotten literary histories
multilingual material/translation