Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline’ in Ali Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature’ 2011, 193- 207

1. Comparative Literature in the
Age of Digital Humanities: On
Possible Futures for a Discipline
- Todd Presner

2. Prepared by
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Nidhi Jetahva Bhavyang Asari

3. Prepared by: Nidhi Jethava & Bhavyang Asari
Batch : 20-22 MKBU English
Paper: 208 (Comparative Literature & Translation
Studies)
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4. 1. What is Comparative Literature ?
2. What is digital Humanities ?
3. Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital
Humanities
4. Comparative Data Studies
5. Comparative Media Studies
6. Comparative Authorship and Platform Studies
7. Conclusion
8. Work cited
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Table of Content

5. What is comparative literature ?
According to PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Founded in 1963, Comparative Literature Studies publishes critical
comparative essays on literature, cultural production, the relationship
between aesthetics and political thought, and histories and philosophies of
form across the world. Articles may also address the transregional and
transhistorical circulation of genres and movements across different
languages, time periods, and media. CLS welcomes a wide range of
approaches to comparative literature, including those that draw on
philosophy, history, area studies, Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies,
gender and sexuality studies, media studies, and emerging critical projects
and methods in the humanities. Each issue of CLS also includes book
reviews of significant monographs and collections of scholarship in
comparative literature.
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6. According to Professor David M. Berry
Digital humanities are at the leading edge of applying
computer-based technology in the humanities. Initially called
‘humanities computing’, the field has grown tremendously
over the past 40 or so years. It originally focused on
developing digital tools and the creation of archives and
databases for texts, artworks, and other materials.
What id Digital Humanities ?
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Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities
According to Todd Presner
● After five hundred years of print and the massive
transformations in society and culture that it
unleashed, we are in the midst of another watershed
moment in human history that is on par with the
invention of the printing press or perhaps the
discovery of the New World.

8. Key argument
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● Why, for example, were humanists, foundations, and universities
conspicuously – even scandalously – silent when Google won its
book search lawsuit and, effectively, won the right to transfer
copyright of orphaned books to itself?
● Why were they silent when the likes of Sony and Disney essentially
engineered the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, radically
restricting intellectual property, copyright, and sharing?
● The Manifesto is a call to Humanists for a much deeper engagement
with digital culture production, publishing, access, and ownership. If
new technologies are dominated and controlled by corporate and
entertainment inter ests, how will our cultural legacy be rendered in
new media formats? By whom and for whom? (Todd Presner)

9. Comparative Data Studies
Comparative Data Studies
Comparative Authorship and Platform Studies
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● In Modern time Comparative studies and Digital Humanities become
Very interesting.
● Since so long scholars make such interesting things for comparison
in literature but in this Digital era people become more advanced.
● There are two kind of people one is Digital immigrantand Digital
Natives.

11. Difference Between Digital Immigrants and Digital natives
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Digital Immigrants Digital Natives
● Slow learners.
● Not habituated
for multi
tasking.
● Always prefer
hard copy of
text.
● Multi-tasking people.
● They can take many
things simultaneously.
● Habituated for multiple
devices for work.
● Mostly using Digital
Tools for working.

12. Comparison of Video and text
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13. PRINT FORM & NOW dIGITAL FORM 13

14. Teaching offline & now Online
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15. advertisement 15

16. Dictionary
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17. Will you prefer to read hard copy or soft copy ?
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18. Will you read novel or watch movie ?
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19. Don’t just download but upload some creative things :-
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20. Namo Tab 20

21. Namo- Wifi
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22. Work Cited
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Beebee, Thomas O., and Nergis Ertürk. “Comparative Literature Studies.” Penn State
University Press,https://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_cls.html . Accessed 4
March 2022.
Berry, David M. “What are the digital humanities?” The British Academy, 13 February
2019,https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-are-digital-humanities/ .
Accessed 4 March 2022.
Presner, Todd. “Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible
Futures for a Discipline.” 2011, p. 16.

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