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The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course.

Title

The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course.

Subject

Pedagogy

Description

Close readings of literary texts afford the student opportunities for isolating and analyzing elements of text, thereby revealing cultural and stylistic influences of author, printer, and society. Digitization of print facilitates close reading by providing the student access to extensive collections throughout different eras and cultures. Upon careful reading, comparison, and reflection, students perceive the significance of changes in the structure, overall form, and style of the text. Joanne Diaz, author and professor of English, discusses the benefits of using the Early English Books Online archive with undergraduate students. By sharing her students’ close readings and subsequent discoveries into textuality and effects of, say punctuation, on the meaning and purpose of a text, Diaz also provides a pedagogical function of the digital archive.

Creator

Diaz, Joanne T.

Publisher

Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to to Teaching Literature Language Composition and Culture

Date

2012

Contributor

Polk, Victoria

Rights

2015 by Duke University Press

Type

Journal Article

Bibliographic Citation

Diaz, Joanne T. "The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course." Pedagogy, v12 n3 (2012): 425-447.

Files

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Collection

Citation

Diaz, Joanne T., “The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course.,” Digital Archiving Resources, accessed March 28, 2024, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/115.