It’s the end of the semester and my class has taken its final bow. I’m not sure if or when I will use this site again, but till then it will still remain open to the public for all wandering eyes. As a farewell, here is one of my favorite videos:
The singular Alger text I chose to analyze was Do and Dare, also known as A Brave Boy’s Fight for Fortune. After reading Alger’s Wikipedia page, I gained a better perspective on Alger, and the themes and topics he touches on. For the most part, the Wikipedia article suggests that Alger primarily writes about impoverished boys who try to become more wealthy. By looking at the title of the text, I assume that this might be one of those stories. […]
I never experienced using a tool like Voyant before or to be even more honest, I never thought of analyzing literature in a scientific way. For a first-time user, Voyant can be overwhelming, and confusing. Within one overarching tool, there is a multitude of other tools that can lead to different ways of looking into the text. For me, the amount of accumulated data, paired with all the accessible modules that create a visual analysis of the text led me […]
For my candidate Wikipedia page, I’m choosing the novel Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. I read the book a few months ago for one of my other literature classes, and I immediately fell in love with the heartwrenching story and the elegant writing. For such a popular book, I was surprised to see how little was mentioned on its page. So far whats included on the page is a summary of the plot, slight discussion about the writing style, and the mention of the […]
While I do believe that annotations are supposed to help the reader, I found them overwhelming and distracting during this assignment. Throughout the whole experience, on both sets of the annotated versions, I felt obligated to look at all the annotations. In some cases, it was interesting to see how certain lines or words referenced a historical moment or an outside literary piece, but at the same time, it felt like information overload. Almost every annotation seemed like a mini […]
Hello! Here is my “blog” where I’ll post my writings for my class ENG 495: Introduction to Digital Humanities. Now, what exactly is Digital Humanities? For many, this is a new term that is also connected to a large unknown realm called the internet. Well, I’m not so sure of the answer myself but that is one of the many questions that we explore in this class. We discuss what digital humanities consist of and its impact on us– the […]
