Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?

One common assumption in the Digital Humanities is that one of its functions is to develop and apply new, computer-supported methods to address research topics in literary studies. Research questions in literary stud...

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Main Author: Mirco Limpinsel
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Forschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel / Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. 2016-09-01
Series:Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
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Online Access:http://www.zfdg.de/2016_009
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description One common assumption in the Digital Humanities is that one of its functions is to develop and apply new, computer-supported methods to address research topics in literary studies. Research questions in literary studies, however, are historically variable and highly dependent upon what one understands as the object of analysis: what is a text, and what is the point of investigating it? Such formulations are always the effect of media cultures, however. Using four characteristics as examples, this paper discusses the semantic transformation of the literary studies research object in connection with digitisation, and it advocates for an understanding of the Digital Humanities as the location of a fundamental methodological discussion about the nature of the literary object.
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spelling doaj-art-92930ac98c4541cca5f1540dd3d8faeb2025-08-20T02:24:17ZdeuForschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel / Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften2510-13582016-09-010110.17175/2016_009867796413Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?Mirco Limpinselhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4301-6892One common assumption in the Digital Humanities is that one of its functions is to develop and apply new, computer-supported methods to address research topics in literary studies. Research questions in literary studies, however, are historically variable and highly dependent upon what one understands as the object of analysis: what is a text, and what is the point of investigating it? Such formulations are always the effect of media cultures, however. Using four characteristics as examples, this paper discusses the semantic transformation of the literary studies research object in connection with digitisation, and it advocates for an understanding of the Digital Humanities as the location of a fundamental methodological discussion about the nature of the literary object.http://www.zfdg.de/2016_009literaturwissenschaft hermeneutik digital humanities
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Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften
literaturwissenschaft
hermeneutik
digital humanities
title Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
title_full Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
title_fullStr Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
title_full_unstemmed Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
title_short Was bedeutet die Digitalisierung für den Gegenstand der Literaturwissenschaft?
title_sort was bedeutet die digitalisierung fur den gegenstand der literaturwissenschaft
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