THE EMERGENCE OF THE EMERGING TRENDS IN LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: LITERATURE REVIEW
Keywords:
Literary Research Methodology, Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Quantitative Analysi, Ecocriticism, Distant Reading, Cognitive Literary Criticis, Postcolonial Studies, Stylometry, Network AnalysisAbstract
This paper explores emerging trends in literary research methodology, emphasizing how technological advancements and interdisciplinary approaches are transforming the field. The study highlights the role of digital humanities, which utilize tools such as text mining, computational linguistics, and digital archives to facilitate digital detailed and large-scale textual analyses. The study examines the incorporation of digital humanities, which employs tools like text mining, computational linguistics, and digital archives to enable more comprehensive and nuanced analysis of literary texts. It also explores the rise of ecocriticism and the focus on environmental themes in literature, driven by growing environmental awareness and interdisciplinary collaborations. Additionally, the paper addresses the impact of globalization on literary studies, emphasizing transnational and comparative literature approaches that consider the interconnectedness of global literary traditions. The application of quantitative methods, such as stylometry and network analysis, is discussed in terms of their ability to uncover patterns and trends across large corpora of texts, uncovering patterns and trends that traditional methods miss. Franco Moretti’s ‘distant reading’ and Matthew Jockers’ computational analyses of 19th century American literature exemplify these advancements, interdisciplinary approaches, such as cognitive literary criticism and postcolonial studies, incorporate insights from cognitive science and historical analysis to deepen literary understanding, as seen in Lisa Zunshine’s exploration of Theory of Mind in literature and Homi Bhabha’s theories of hybridity. Quantitative methods like stylometry and network analysis offer new ways to attribute authorship and visualize narrative structures, enhancing our comprehension of literary texts through the works of scholars like John Burrows and Moretti. Ecocriticism highlights the relationship between literature and the environment, reflecting growing ecological awareness and addressing contemporary issues through speculative narratives like Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘cli-fi’ works. These methodologies, supported by critical theories and exemplified through specific texts, promise to deepen our insights into literary works and their broader cultural and historical contexts, showcasing the dynamic evolution of literary research in the 21st century
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