Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India
Nishat Zaidi, "Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India"
English | ISBN: 1032406755 | 2022 | 414 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 1032406755 | 2022 | 414 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms ― in manuscripts ― and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital technologies ― including minimal computing, novel digital humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive generation and maintenance ― for explicating poetics of Indian literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will facilitate comparative readings.
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