University of Basel - Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading
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Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading
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Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
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- Duration 6 weeks
- Weekly study 4 hours
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- 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?
- This free online course 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
- and will also address more recent practices such as computer-based
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Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading at FutureLearn Curriculum
Literature in the Digital Age: from Close Reading to Distant Reading
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How we read today
Introduction
Reading in different media
New reading strategies
Professional reading strategies
Close reading
I. A. Richards, New Criticism, close reading
How to close-read a poem, part I
How to close-read a poem, part II
Hyper reading & social reading
Hyper reading I: Definitions & strategies
Hyper reading II: Further strategies, benefits & risks
Social reading
New Historicism
Historical contexts
Literary-historical contexts
New Historicism
Distant reading
The strategies of distant reading
Doing distant reading
Euterpe
Surface reading & the materiality of communication
The medium is the message
Surface reading & the materiality of books
Remediation
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