Digital Literary Studies in Slovakia and „in Close Proximity“ Cover Image

Digitálny výskum literatúry na Slovensku a v „blízkom okolí“
Digital Literary Studies in Slovakia and „in Close Proximity“

Author(s): Marek Debnár
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV
Keywords: digital humanities; digital literary studies; distant reading; DH research programmes

Summary/Abstract: Over the last decades, the significant increase in digital resources has initiated research into the humanities and social sciences that is based on data, technology, and quantitative statistical methods. What all this research has in common is the concept of the digital humanities (hereinafter referred to as DH), which has even influenced the classic and perhaps most common approach to knowledge in the humanities – reading. Extensive digitisation of manuscripts, books, magazines, and other texts into electronic corpora has created a need not only to rethink and redefine the concept of reading and its variations (especially in relation to close reading and distant reading), but also to specify the methodology and possibilities of digital text analysis. This monographic edition of Slovenská literatúra aims to present digital literary research in the wider context of specific research programmes, projects, and infrastructures. This edition has been published with the support of the Slovak Academy of Sciences provided as part of the international scientific and technical cooperation project COST Action CA 16204: Distant Reading for European Literary History (1840 – 1920).

  • Issue Year: 67/2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 519-522
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Slovak