Digital Humanities: a new mode of study in Comparative Literatrue. (original) (raw)

While evaluating this critical thought whether it is necessary to include Digital Humanities in the course of present day Comparative Literature studies, many of us find the entire subject to be utterly complicated and try to avoid it as much as possible, even exclude it without generating the question of necessity. I personally exposed my thought that I am not being able to fit myself into it and hence do not want to read it in its greater course. But then one can just not avoid the question of ‘necessity’ of Digital Humanities, especially being a Comparative Literature student of 21st century. The choice of streams from ‘plus 2’ level indulges a student to learn ‘Humanities’ along with Science and Commerce where the student (who chose to learn Humanities) makes a division and recommends a part as ‘Pure Arts’ and the other part involving Eco-Stat-Math combination which was granted ‘technologically’. This part includes subjects like History, Political Science, Sociology etc which are theoretical and read and answered from ‘text books’. ‘Books’ which are hard bounded. But often students took help from internet which, as a product was their ‘digital’ aid, but only as a product. The ‘Wikipedia’ pages or even the portable files never led the student to think who all are the authors constantly updating the current issues occurring in several countries, at the same time tracking the huge record of the past histories. Different subjects, objects are getting preserved unvaryingly. But what shall be the actual procedure, this question was never thought. We never had primarily discussed how texts were ‘digitalised’ and the availability of our so called text books on the internet. After not getting the concrete study materials from the Libraries, the only solution for this never ending problem of ours is to check for those online materials. Henceforth the discipline and methodology of Comparative Literature gives us a chance to explore the important account of Humanities when it gets ‘Digitalised’, how literature gets related to new developments in technology. Apart from writing my own estimation I would also like to include Gunther Martens article “Literature, Digital Humanities and the age of Encyclopaedia” in the course of my writing.