Textual Studies in Digital Age

DHUM

72000

Textual Studies in Digital Age

This course addresses the question, “what is a text?” and interrogates the extent to which the modifier “digital” in “digital textuality” alters prior conceptions of textuality. To that end, it surveys the history and practices of textual studies from a three-part perspective, including critical, material, and digital approaches. Students will explore how ideas of authorship and readership shape critical editions and notions of textuality itself. The course will explore materiality by considering bibliography and codicology, the respective study of print or manuscript materiality, as a way of opening the discussion whether text is material property and how this question applies to digital text.

Offer as needed

Graduate School Graduate

No

030893