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Modernism Meets Digital Humanities
Author(s) -
Ross Stephen,
Sayers Jentery
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12174
Subject(s) - digital humanities , modernism (music) , argument (complex analysis) , convergence (economics) , geospatial analysis , post modernism , scale (ratio) , humanities , computer science , literature , art , postmodernism , cartography , geography , biochemistry , chemistry , economics , economic growth
This essay traces some of the ways modernism and digital humanities have converged of late. It covers some of the key modes in which that convergence has so far found expression: popular websites and mobile apps, issues of copyright, the production of digital scholarly editions, the practice of versioning, questions of scale, and geospatial techniques. We cite examples of productive convergences of modernist studies and digital humanities, and articulate the issues listed above with specific research and teaching projects. Our overview advances the basic argument that there are special affinities between modernism and digital humanities and that digital approaches afford some of the most promising lines of development for the ongoing expansion of the “new modernist studies.”