문학 작품과 디지털 기술과의 융합

Abstract

This study aims (ⅰ) to explore changes in literature caused by media, the concept of Digital Humanities and the sectors it covers, and then (ⅱ) to suggest ‘the science of Digital Literature」 through cases of the digital literature in Germany. Literature in digital environment helps authors, readers, and critics push the boundary between them, which changes their vertical relationships into horizontal ones and makes the writing method and distribution easy. It opened the door to expand the area of literature to the writing environment of texts, distribution, and consumption. Digital Humanities is one of the fields that accept positively these changes. Digital Humanities is an emerging field of study bringing computing and digital technology to the study of the humanities in the pursuit of researching and understanding the humanities in new ways. It provides new insight on different levels and expands knowledge and understanding combining humanities subjects, research methods, and teaching methods with digital technologies. German universities such as the University of Göttingen, the University of Münster, and the University of Potsdam are introducing Digital Literature(Digitale Literaturwissenschaft). The essential content that literature pursues will remain unshaken in this rapidly-changing technology era. To rejuvenate literature and make it function, and to make the individual who majors in Literature a productive member of society, we need plans for activity associated with other disciplines like Digital Literature, teaching and working utilizing digital tools, and selecting texts and improving teaching method for students of digital generation. In this paper, we suggest ‘the Science of Digital Literature’ as one of these plans. It is the science converging ‘Literature’ and ‘Informatics’ which makes it possible to reprocess traditional literary texts in various ways by designing, building, analyzing, and interpreting them with tools provided by computing and then allows communication.