The Challenge of Information Technology for Literary Studies

ABSTRACT

This paper identifies the challenge and shows how research done on the Kierkegaard corpus is meeting the challenge. It presents eighteen studies, tracing the development of computer based Kierkegaard research, and suggesting that the computer might be used to produce more than word counts and locations of words or strings of texts. The study introduces the idea of a multi-dimensional concordance as evidenced by recent research on Fear and Trembling.