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

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

Pedagogy

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.

Diaz, Joanne T.

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

2012

Polk, Victoria

2015 by Duke University Press

Journal Article

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