L'etude litteraire a l'ere du numerique: du texte a l'intertexte dans les "digital humanities"

An integral part of the growing international field of concerns and practices in and around the "Digital Humanities", computational and digitally-assisted approaches to humanities text collections have in the past several years become increasingly prevalent. This article aims to explore both the promise and perils of these new digital approaches to literary and historical data sets, as well as the methodological underpinnings that inform their elaboration. In particular, we will examine several computational approaches to literary-historical analysis in French literature undertaken by the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, one of the oldest North American centres for digital humanities research.