Fiction’s Functions: Three Data-Driven Hypotheses – Online Lecture by Andrew Piper

The past few months have left no doubt that literary and cultural studies have long since gone digital. However, the use of digital tools does not mean that it has actually already become digital. Wide areas of these subjects continue to work with reading and analysis procedures in which they use computers as tools, but only to a limited extent make their possibilities and modes of operation the starting point of their methodology and thinking. Nevertheless, digital humanities scholarship and work with digital methods continues to advance, even if there is only limited exchange between the fields with their various…