Digital Humanities: Dynamic Relationship or decoding English Literature?

Name of Author : R Karthikeyan

Abstract: In the post-pandemic era, internet transformed the learning, teaching and communicating. New ideas and thoughts represented through poems, essays, lessons earlier are now getting transformed into tweets, comments, posts and blogs. In literature, a new English dialect termed Text-Speak has a silver lining and we should thank the social media platforms. The new budding writers think sharply on what to write to get the content reached with restrictions of scrolls grabbing minimum or no attention. Literary writers are no exception and started to severe their characteristic elements so that the restrictions need to be complied. The quick media interactions submerge the urge of thirsty readers nibbling their intentional reading habits which paves the way for new education professionals who supports that creativity and imagination should be nurtured. The tech-savvy habitants are accustomed to search for assignments or 60 words news articles infiltrating the readers totally forgetting the beauty of English Literature world which belongs to Homer, Sophocles, Virgil and taken over by James Joyce, Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson. The important historical works or cultural events shall never be replaced by works of modern literature to a certain extent. This paper delineates the digital impact on English writing and literature in terms of digital humanities.

Keywords : Post-Pandemic; English Dialect; Tech-Savvy; Social Media; Budding Writers; English Literature

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