INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN LITERARY STUDIES: RECENT TRENDS

Abstract

This paper is going to examine the power of digital humanities (DH) in reshaping the modern approach of literary studies, looking at the different interdisciplinary fields they create. Digital humanities projects combine digital tools and computational methods which produce various perspectives to the authors and their texts. Although traditional scholarship remains an important approach, these techniques provide additional depth to the studies, for instance stylometry, topic modeling, and literary mapping. Furthermore, the paper also provides an account of posthumanism in literature expanding the anthropocentric perspectives by emphasizing the linkages of these in the worlds of technology, animals, the environment, and machines. Also, memory technologies in literarture are researferred, focusing on how vaictories, histrotical semememts and personal expierences are keeped and conveyed in avticial works. With regard to the medical and health humanities and how they can be used to drive empathy and analysis in the healthcare field among practitioners. The environmental and blue humanities focus on literature which promotes the understanding that ecological issues and the human waterline are interconnected and by doing so ensure environmental responsibility and sustainability. Lastly, this paper shows how diverse approaches come together in modern literary studies that result in the widening rather than narrowing of our views of literature´s connection with social life.