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One of the major topics under investigation in the field of humanities nowadays is undoubtedly the concept of digital humanities. Suddenly, we see that many courses, departments, projects, and research groups have emerged focused on the interaction between the computer and literature, art, and education. On the one hand, this attention is natural and well deserved, since the extent to which our life has become "digitised" is enormous. On the other hand, the focus on the digital aspects of our discourses, everyday or professional, seems to be overrated. It is understandable that, at some time, "digital humanities" was something new and exciting, but since that time, it has lost its novelty and become part of normalcy. So, to analyse the position of digital humanities in contemporary education may, in fact, be an ill-posed problem since most of humanities research at present is naturally digital. As Earhart argues, "Maybe the term is just a placeholder, and the day is not far off when people won't feel the need to make a distinction between the humanities and the digital humanities" (Howard, qtd. in Earhart, 2018, p. 1). My aim in this article is then not to point to new and exciting aspects of the digitisation in literary education, to list new ways of using an ever-growing number of new applications, social networks, or portals, and discuss how they could be pragmatically put to use in the classroom, but to reflect on the feasibility of making a distinction between the digital and non-digital in the most essential area of literary study, that is, in the interpretation of literary works. To present it as clearly as possible, I cannot avoid, despite what has been said above, going into some analysis of the concept and its short history, including its different manifestations in humanities research.
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Bouchardon, S. (2011). « Digital Literature and the Digital », Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (JWCP), volume 4 numéro 1, juin 2011, Londres : Intellect Books, 65-78. ---------- In this paper, the approach to the Digital is based on the distinction between three levels: a theoretical level, an applicative level and an interpretative level. Now digital literary works play on the tensions between the three levels and allow these tensions to be highlighted. Studying the conjunction of the Digital and of literary creation – by analysing digital literary works – thus proves to be relevant. Looking into the specific properties of the Digital can throw light on the potentialities of digital literature; in the same way, digital literature can act as a revealer for the Digital.
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