LITERARY ANALYSIS IN THE DIGITAL ERA: NEW METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS, AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Keywords:
Digital humanities; literary analysis; distant reading; text mining; corpus linguistics; computational criticism; close reading; algorithmic interpretation.Abstract
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has profoundly transformed the landscape of literary analysis, introducing new methodologies, computational tools, and theoretical frameworks that challenge traditional modes of interpretation. This article examines how digital humanities approaches — including text mining, corpus linguistics, network analysis, and algorithmic reading — are reshaping scholarly engagement with literary texts. We explore the tensions between close and distant reading, the implications of big data for canonical studies, and the democratization of literary criticism enabled by digital platforms. Drawing on recent case studies, we argue that digital literary analysis extends and enriches humanistic inquiry rather than replacing it, opening previously inaccessible dimensions of textual meaning.
References
Busa, R. (1980). The annals of humanities computing: The Index Thomisticus. Computers and the Humanities, 14(2), 83–90. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02403798
Hayles, N. K. (2012). How we think: Digital media and contemporary technogenesis. University of Chicago Press.
Jockers, M. L. (2013). Macroanalysis: Digital methods and literary history. University of Illinois Press.
Kirschenbaum, M. (2016). Track changes: A literary history of word processing. Harvard University Press.
Liu, A. (2013). The meaning of the digital humanities. PMLA, 128(2), 409–423. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.2.409
McGann, J. (2014). A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction. Harvard University Press.
Moretti, F. (2013). Distant reading. Verso Books.
Ramsay, S. (2011). Reading machines: Toward an algorithmic criticism. University of Illinois Press.
Sinclair, S., & Rockwell, G. (2016). Text analysis and the digital humanities. In S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, & J. Unsworth (Eds.), A new companion to digital humanities (pp. 274–290). Wiley-Blackwell.
Underwood, T. (2019). Distant horizons: Digital evidence and literary change. University of Chicago Press.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
How to Cite
