READING IN COGNITIVE NARRATOLOGY AND DISTANT READING IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACH

David Hoyos García
2021 Revista Trama  
This essay proposes to make a comparison between cognitive narratology, which studies narrative in its many forms, emphasizing mental/biological processes as similar in reader and author, and the digital humanities' distant reading approach, which identifies literary systems and forms more globally, drawing on the computer as a tool for interpretation. The main ideas of cognitive narratology developed by one of its main theorists, David Herman, are presented focusing on the definition and
more » ... onships between reader and text. Cognitive narratology as an interdisciplinary approach towards close reading is mentioned to dialogue with the main topics of the digital humanities literary approach, especially the ideas delineated by Franco Moretti. The contrast of both approaches will focus on the role of the reader by finding some contact points between them.
doi:10.5935/2177-5672/trama.v12n2p155-165 fatcat:62bvtvo5qnbtresut2iwr5sccy