The history of digital humanities and digital literary studies goes back to when Roberto Busa enlisted IBM in his work, and soon a familiar literary tool -the concordance- was transformed through his means of making it, with profound implications for the field of literary studies and the humanities generally.
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| 1940 | 1940, Roberto Busa began using a computer to index every word in the writings of Saint Thomas AquinasThe history of digital humanities and digital literary studies goes back to when Roberto Busa enlisted IBM in his work, and soon a familiar literary tool -the concordance- was transformed through his means of making it, with profound implications for the field of literary studies and the humanities generally. |
Lucía García |