Abstract
The guidelines presented here were developed in a seminar aimed at M.A. and advanced B.A. students. They are based on narratological theories by Marie-Laure Ryan, Gérard Genette, William Nelles, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, and Viveca Füredy. Our contribution focuses on how collaborative annotation tasks can be used in university seminars, especially in the context of teaching students how to critically assess and compare theoretical frameworks and definitions. We also highlight the students’ impression that developing and using annotating guidelines improved their close-reading skills and that the task sensitised them to some of the core challenges of distant reading (e.g. questions of ambiguity and interpretation).
Highlights
The guidelines presented here were developed in a seminar aimed at M.A. and advanced B.A. students
They are based on narratological theories by Marie-Laure Ryan, Gérard Genette, William Nelles, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, and Viveca Füredy
Our contribution focuses on how collaborative annotation tasks can be used in university seminars, especially in the context of teaching students how to critically assess and compare theoretical frameworks and definitions
Summary
These guidelines were developed in our seminar “Digital Methods in Literary Studies”, which was aimed at M.A. students and advanced B.A. students. Even though many of them were critical as to the applicability of annotation for their purposes as literary scholars, they appreciated the development and use of annotation guidelines as a tool for close reading: rather than let an ambiguous text stay ambiguous, they had to decide for one option in order to be able to annotate a passage and had to justify their choice with reference to the whole text or to adapt the guidelines in order to address and document the ambiguity Likewise, they had to precisely identify the location of changes (e.g. of level or narratee) in the text. Our students enjoyed the SANTA competition because it enabled them to practice their close reading skills as well as to learn and critically evaluate a new method of conducting literary studies
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