Distant Reading, Digital Humanities and the Changing Field of Early Irish Fiction: Micro versus Macro, More or Less?
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While recent years have seen the availability of some truly innovativedigital resources in the international field of literary studies, there is yetlittle sustained investigation, reflection or critique by humanities scholarsof the new forms of knowledge thus generated, or of the new scales andtypes of research made possible, or of the new kinds of intellectual brokeragewhich may be necessary to link digital and analogue resources. The current debate concerning distant and close reading offers an opportunityto advance this necessary wider analysis. The chosen case study isthe recently completed online resource Guide to Irish Fiction: 1650-1900, accessible at http://www.lgif.ie (PI Margaret Kelleher), an electronicversion of the Loebers’ Guide to Irish Fiction, a bibliography ofsome 5,000 titles. This project provides a concrete example of the challengesand opportunities presented by distant reading, and relatedly bynew developments in digital humanities, to the field of eighteenth andnineteenth-century Irish fiction and to the established canon of Irish fiction. The paper situates this project in the context of current debates onthe research significance of macroanalyses and distant readings, withspecific reference to the potential gains for previously neglected domainsof national literatures.
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While recent years have seen the availability of some truly innovativedigital resources in the international field of literary studies, there is yetlittle sustained investigation, reflection or critique by humanities scholarsof the new forms of knowledge thus generated, or of the new scales andtypes of research made possible, or of the new kinds of intellectual brokeragewhich may be necessary to link digital and analogue resources. The current debate concerning distant and close reading offers an opportunityto advance this necessary wider analysis. The chosen case study isthe recently completed online resource Guide to Irish Fiction: 1650-1900, accessible at http://www.lgif.ie (PI Margaret Kelleher), an electronicversion of the Loebers’ Guide to Irish Fiction, a bibliography ofsome 5,000 titles. This project provides a concrete example of the challengesand opportunities presented by distant reading, and relatedly bynew developments in digital humanities, to the field of eighteenth andnineteenth-century Irish fiction and to the established canon of Irish fiction. The paper situates this project in the context of current debates onthe research significance of macroanalyses and distant readings, withspecific reference to the potential gains for previously neglected domainsof national literatures.
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