scholarly journals Avaliando entidades mencionadas na coleção ELTeC-por

Linguamática ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Diana Santos ◽  
Eckhard Bick ◽  
Marcin Wlodek
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Distant Reading

Este artigo relata a preparação da anotação da coleção ELTeC-por com entidades mencionadas apropriadas ao género textual "romances e novelas publicadas entre 1840 e 1920", para possibilitar a leitura distante em português. Em primeiro lugar apresentamos a coleção ELTeC-por, compilada no âmbito da ação COST "Distant Reading for European Literary History" para estudar a literatura europeia, e explicamos as diversas restrições e escolhas necessárias, fornecendo uma caracterização inicial segundo vários eixos: a origem e tamanho das obras, o seu (sub)género literário, o género do autor, o local de publicação e a existência ou não de mais edições. Em seguida apresentamos o sistema PALAVRAS-NER, com o qual anotaremos a coleção, explicando detalhadamente o seu funcionamento. Passamos então à descrição da criação de uma subcoleção de oito obras revistas, que servem, por um lado, para avaliar o desempenho do sistema de REM automático, e, por outro, para caracterizar o tipo de população esperada. As obras podem classificar-se segundo dois eixos diferentes: romances históricos vs. romances contemporâneos; e obras com grafia original ou grafia modernizada. Além disso, algumas obras são obviamente canónicas, outras não. Além da descrição quantitativa do resultado de anotação e revisão, apresentamos algumas considerações qualitativas sobre o processo. Também fornecemos uma análise detalhada de algumas categorias, tentando mostrar como os lugares, profissões e gentílicos mais mencionados podem ser indicadores numa leitura distante. Concluímos comparando com o trabalho internacional feito na análise de entidades mencionadas de obras literárias, explicando as diferenças e sugerindo trabalho futuro.

Digital Curation, AustLit, and Australian Children's Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Amy Cross ◽  
Cherie Allan ◽  
Kerry Kilner
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Critical Spaces ◽  
Reading Methods ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Significant Attention

This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.

The Doxa of Reading

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Goldstone
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Literary History ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Semantic Transformation

Reading Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees as a late-stage graduate student in 2008 was invigorating. Here was an approach to literary history free from the pieties of close reading, committed to empiricism, seeking to fulfill, with its “materialist conception of form,” the promise of the sociology of literature (92). And, at the time, it seemed natural that the way to follow the path laid out by Moretti in Graphs and in the essays he had published over the previous decade was to go to my computer, polish my rusty programming skills, and start making graphs. Yet reconsidering Moretti's Distant Reading now, one is struck by how nondigital the book is. In fact, the meaning of distant reading has undergone a rapid semantic transformation. In “Conjectures on World Literature,” originally published in 2000, Moretti introduces the phrase to describe “a patchwork of other people's research, without a single direct textual reading” (Distant Reading 48). Today, however, distant reading typically refers to computational studies of text. Introducing a 2016 cluster of essays called “Text Analysis at Scale,” Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein employ the term to speak of “using digital tools to ‘read’ large swaths of text” (Introduction); in his contribution to the cluster, Ted Underwood embraces “distant reading” as a name for applying machine-learning techniques to unstructured text. Discussions of distant reading have become discussions of computation with text, even if no section of Distant Reading features the elaborate computations found in the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlets to which Moretti has contributed.

scholarly journals RESIL MOJARES AND THE CRISIS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Amado Anthony III Gracia Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The World ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
Franco Moretti ◽  
The 1950S

After its heyday from the 1950s until the early 1970s, a crisis in the field of comparative literature was declared present by its practitioners during the 1980s. The effects of the perceived crisis were felt not only during conferences but also through brutal budget cuts and the downsizing of comparative literature departments across the world.   In the decades that followed, various attempts to address the crisis were made by critics such as Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, Alexander Beecroft, among many others. As a result, methods and concepts such as “distant reading,” “evolutionary literary history,” “literary ecologies,” and “world republic of letters” easily became the theoretical and methodological bulwark of numerous comparative literature departments against the perceived effects of the crisis.  Incidentally, in his seminal Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel, Resil Mojares deployed similar ideas and concepts, however, to different ends.  This paper, then, is first an attempt to analyze Mojares’ deployment of the said concepts and methods vis-à-vis to that of Beecroft, Casanova, and Moretti’s. Finally, the paper also seeks to identify and elaborate on specific implications and possibilities made visible by Mojares’ methodological interventions in the field and practice of comparative literature in the Philippines.Keywords: Crisis, comparative literature, literary history, Mojares, methodological intervention, Philippines.Cite as: Mendoza III, A.A.G. (2018). Resil Mojares and the crisis of comparative literature in the Philippines. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 3(2), 80-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss2pp80-91

“The Figure in the Carpet”

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Armstrong ◽  
Warren Montag
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Literary History ◽  
World Literature ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Quantum Leap ◽  
Canonical Texts

Of Franco Moretti's masterworks of literary history and theory, why is it the loosely assembled collection of occasional pieces Distant Reading that has captured the literary critical spotlight? Why now, just when enrollments in the humanities are plummeting, new technologies for storing and distributing information are revolutionizing interpersonal communication and scientific methods, and global is well on its way to replacing interdisciplinary as the descriptor favored by university administrators? Moretti is not alone in attempting to reconfigure a discipline that tends to favor the singular text and national literary traditions for a generation of students who apparently could not care less about either. In his effort to adapt literary history and form to the conditions of globalization that make them seem irrelevant, he asks us to abandon our obsessive focus on canonical texts—to start instead considering how certain forms of literature made the quantum leap from nation to world and what formal changes they underwent in doing so. This project he warns, will require us to “unlearn” how to read a literary text and to question the assumption that “world literature” is an object to be known: “We must think of it as a problem that asks for a new critical method” (46). He famously exposes this problem by staging various encounters between literary form and quantitative analysis.

scholarly journals Az ELTE DH Regénykorpusz és lehetőségei

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tímea Borbála Bajzát ◽  
Botond Bálint Szemes ◽  
Eszter Szlávich
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Searchable Database ◽  
Action Project ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Linguistic Approaches ◽  
The Given

The corpus of the Hungarian novel created at the ELTE Department of Digital Humanities offers new methodologies for the philological research and “distant reading” approaches by providing a digitized, annotated and searchable database of freely accessible novels from the Hungarian literary history. The database fits organically into the international collection of the ELTeC COST Action Project (European Literary Text Collection https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/), since the first 100 novels of the database are part of the Hungarian sub-corpus of that collection. Beside the description of the corpus and the aspects of the selection, the paper also reports in detail on the possibilities of the quantitative analysis of the novels. In doing so, we want to present what kind of knowledge of the Hungarian literary history can be produced by applying statistical and linguistic approaches, and what role these methods can play in the process of the interpretation of the texts. Through the visualized tendencies, a new history of the style of the Hungarian prose can be outlined, while the peculiarities of some texts in relation to others can lead to the description of the poetics of the given authors and their novels.

All or Nothing: Reading Franco Moretti Reading

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Lesjak
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Bourgeois Culture ◽  
Fredric Jameson ◽  
The Relationship

Published in tandem in 2013, Franco Moretti’s two most recent books continue his on-going project to develop radical new methods of literary history and to propose new formulations and frameworks for understanding the relationship between form and history and form and ideology. Bringing together the series of essays through which he developed his concept of distant reading, his collection of the same name argues for a ‘falsifiable criticism’ grounded in the data now available through digital technologies and for the concept of a ‘world literature’ that it is the task of comparatists to theorise. His book on the bourgeois – characterised by Moretti as a project of an entirely different nature – finds in the minutiae of language the construction of a bourgeois culture in which the figure of the bourgeois himself ultimately disappears. Contra Moretti, the review contends that these books are deeply interrelated and that the limits of Moretti’s method are to be found specifically in the issues of scale raised by reading these two works in dialectical relationship to each other. In particular, while Moretti importantly forces us to confront in world literature what Fredric Jameson refers to as the ‘scandal of multiplicity’, his method is unable, in the end, to account for a reading of the world in literature in which both the empirical fact of a dead history and the allegorical possibility of another history already in the making can be found.

Aggregation, Public Criticism, and the History of Reading Big Data

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 1207-1224
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mangrum
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Media ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Made In

This essay traces the history of ideas behind the critical methods of distant reading and macroanalysis, modes of criticism enabled by the rise of the science, media, and technology of aggregation. I situate these methods in the intellectual shifts marked by the advent of modern polling practices, computational census technologies, post-1945 marketing strategies, and other methods of analyzing an aggregated public. Drawing on work by Sarah E. Igo, Mary Poovey, Bill Kovarik, and others, I demonstrate that the ideas legitimated through these shifts in technology and public sentiment are fundamental to the types of claims made in the “big data” digital humanities. This attention to intellectual history raises important problems and qualifications for big data methods like distant reading, particularly regarding their underlying assumptions about the publics of literary history.

Theology Still?

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 674-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wickman
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Know How ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Critical Methods

“I hope my attitude will not be regarded as irreverent,” Maurizio Ascari declares before launching into a critique of Franco Moretti's critical methods (3). By contrast, I undertake no critique of Moretti's methods, but my attitude toward his work is at least somewhat irreverent, if also appreciative. I titled an early draft of this essay “Distant Reading and the New Poetics of Enchantment; or, Toward a Literary History That Is Spiritual but Not Religious.” This title was self-consciously outrageous, since there is little that is overtly enchanted, let alone spiritual, about Moretti's criticism. Indeed, one of the recurring rhetorical fillips in his book Distant Reading involves the disparagement of close reading as a kind of theology: “At bottom,” close reading is “a theological exercise—very solemn treatment of very few texts taken very seriously—whereas what we really need is a little pact with the devil: we know how to read texts, now let's learn how not to read them. Distant reading: where distance … is a condition of knowledge” (48; see also 33, 67, 89, and 113). By invoking enchantment and spirituality to describe his work, then, I was looking to underscore, a little cheekily, how rigorous engagement with his “pact with the devil” reveals similar features to those Moretti partly discredits—namely, credulity, “superstition” (Johnson 84), and “mystery” (Goodwin xiii). In essence, my aim was to employ close reading—of distant reading—as a kind of return, if not revenge, of the repressed.

Race and Distant Reading

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Richard Jean So ◽  
Edwin Roland
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
History And Criticism ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Socially Constructed

This essay brings together two methods of cultural‐literary analysis that have yet to be fully integrated: distant reading and the critique of race and racial difference. It constructs a reflexive and critical version of distant reading—one attuned to the arguments and methods of critical race studies—while still providing data‐driven insights useful to the writing of literary history and criticism, especially to the history and criticism of postwar African American fiction, in particular James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Because race is socially constructed, it poses unique challenges for a computational analysis of race and writing. Any version of distant reading that addresses race will require a dialectical approach. (RJS and ER)

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