Digital Humanities
Objectives
- To critically discuss the concept of Digital Humanities.
- To reflect on the current role of new technologies and digital tools in the development of Social and Human Sciences.
- To understand the notion of hypertext and the new forms of digital textuality.
- To identify the manifestations according to which the digital remediation of literature contributes, on the one hand, to the preservation, rereading and critical review of textual heritage and, on the other, to the creation of new genres.
- To acquire skills for the critical analysis of projects whose development is based on the application of digital methodologies and tools, considering recent critical literature on the subject.
- To recognize the heuristic potential of this application in autonomous work.
General characterization
Code
722091127
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Ana Maria Dias Sirgado
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
BURDICK, Anne et al. (2012). Digital Humanities, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
DRUCKER, Johanna (2002). “Intimations of Immateriality: Graphical Form, Textual Sense and the Electronic Environment”. In Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (eds.), Reimagining Textuality: Essays on the Verbal, Visual and Cultural Construction of Texts, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 152-177.
MCGANN, Jerome (2001). Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s.
MCGANN, Jerome (2014). A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
PORTELA, Manuel (2020). "O que é a digitalização das humanidades?". In Fernanda Ribeiro et al.(eds.), As Letras entre a Tradição e a Inovação, Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, pp. 91-121.
SCHREIBMAN, Susan e SIEMENS, Ray (2008). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Oxford: Blackwell.
Teaching method
The teaching methodology will have a theoretical component, which includes a reflection on the critical models for the study of the syllabus contents, and a strong practical approach dedicated to the analysis and discussion of theoretical texts as well as of research projects that are exemplary of those models and contents.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Methodologies - oral presentation and discussion(20%), participation in the debates held in class (20%), written essay to be developed throughout the semester(60%)
Subject matter
1. The field of Digital Humanities and the consolidation of a new epistemological paradigm
2. Hypertext and digital textuality
2.1. The book and the archive: from print to digital
2.2. New materialities and new creative and reading practices
2.2.1. Literary creation
2.2.1.1. Rereadings and digital versions of experimental poetry (among the referenced authors, Augusto de Campos and E. M. de Melo e Castro)
2.2.1.2. Digital poetics and cyberliterature (among referenced authors, Jim Andrews and Johanna Drucker)
2.2.2. Readers as hypertext producers
The development of the syllabus will be based on the analysis and discussion of projects such as The Rossetti Archive, The William Blake Archive or Digital Archive of PO.EX – Portuguese Experimental Poetry.