Literature in the Digital Age - from Close Reading to Distant Reading FutureLearn

Overview

As we make sense of what we read, we construe meaning using the cultural technique of interpretation. Only rarely do we actually reflect this process: what are the means that help us understand literary texts? How does interpretation work? And how has our increasing use of electronic devices changed the way we read and interpret literature?

Key facts:

This Literature in the Digital Age - from Close Reading to Distant Reading at University of Basel by FutureLearn  addresses these questions as it introduces you to a variety of ways of interpreting literary texts. We will look into time-tested methods such as close reading and will also address more recent practices such as computer-based distant reading.