The Influence of Digital Humanities on the Aesthetic Sense of Teaching Literature

Abstract

Teaching literature, especially plays and poems, have always had a more-than-life aspect in the process of imparting the ideas and its literary beauty. The learners of literature have a broad understanding of the various emotions associated with a work, mainly due to the non-verbal communication of the teacher. The question in point is concerned with the methods in which Digital Humanities can remotely bridge the gap between bringing a wholesome amount of knowledge and bringing in a stronger connection between the literature and the person experiencing the text. A literary text can only be wholly experienced by extracting the essence and living out the characters involved in the minds eye. Digital Humanities may enhance the teaching process with respect to the information delivered, in all its entirety, but it may lack in bringing about the emotion and the feeling associated with it.

This paper brings to light the problems associated in using Digital Humanities to teach literature and the methods in which this chasm can be negotiated to bring forth the human touch to the machine-teaching process.