Formationen der Praxis

Studien zu Darstellungsformen von Digital Humanities und Literaturwissenschaft

By (author) Friederike Schruhl

Book cover: Formationen der Praxis

Extent: 342 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, Literary Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(May 2020)

ISBN: 9783847110958

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $82.00

In stock

Fur die Erforschung der Literaturwissenschaft liegt das epistemische Potential der Digitalisierung darin, dass sie implizit auf die bisweilen unbeobachtete Normalitat disziplinarer Praxis verweist.


As a consequence of digital technological innovations alternative ways of dealing with literary objects have experienced an upswing. Full text search engines, quantitative text analysis techniques, digital annotation systems and visualisation tools affect, modify, or substitute commonplace working routines in literary studies. These developments are discussed controversly – often framed within opinionated crisis discourses. Against this backdrop, this study opts for a stronger empirical exploration of the concrete doing of literary scholars. It propounds a text-based praxeology, which boils down to a de-dramatisation of meta-narratives about the impact of digital technologies in the humanities leading either to a ‘golden future’ or an ‘imminent downfall’ of the discipline.

  • By (author) Friederike Schruhl