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Instructors: M. Phil. Carla Plieth
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Displayed in timetable as:
02-25-2217-se
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Preconditions:
Regular attendance of and participation in the seminar.
Giving a short presentation in class (topics will be allocated in the first session).
Official Course Description:
“Both children’s literature and digital humanities (DH) are difficult to define,” writes Deanna Stover (2023, p.69). Yet, while children’s literature scholarship is vast and varied, “[t]o date, the potential for digital research techniques to offer new readings of historically marginalised literatures, such as children’s literature […], has not been recognised” (Cross et al., 2019, p. 6), despite “[t]he fact […] that the field of children’s literature could benefit greatly from more engagement with the digital, and the field of digital humanities could be deeply enriched by children’s literature” (Stover 2013, p. 70). In this seminar, we will thus take a closer look at the diverse field of children’s (and young adult) literature from a digital humanities perspective.
First, we will discuss what children’s literature is, the different forms it can take, and how it has developed historically. We will also delve into ways to analyse (children’s) literature, becoming familiar with a range of terminology and concepts, as well as how the digital age has influenced the publication, creation, and reception of children’s literature, for instance through eLiterature such as Alice in Dataland 2.0, interactive fiction, or fanfiction. Then, we will investigate a range of international digital archives and repositories of primarily digitised historical children’s literature, such as The Data-Sitters Club, The Lone Woman and Last Indians Digital Archive, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, the Children’s Literature Corpus of CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context), or the Project Gutenberg’s Children’s Bookshelf. We will discuss opportunities of digital and computational analyses these digital archives facilitate, their benefits and limitations, and their implications for research in the field of (historical) children’s literature. Therefore, this seminar shall provide a broader overview of the field of digital children’s literature and investigate its potential for future research.
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