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LITTERATURHISTORIA INOM DIGITAL HUMANIORA
Nordic Literary History Now Workshop, Aalborg universitet
23-24 mars 2017
Jenny Bergenmar, [email protected]
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Från humanities computing till digital humanities
• Literary studies (Thomas
Rommel):
”Most studies, both quantitative
and qualitative, published in the
context of literary humanities
computing after powerful desktop
computers became available,
tend to prioritize empirical data,
either in the form of automatically
extracted stylistic features, or as
encoded thematic units that are
then quantified, mapped, and
interpreted.”
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
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Digital Literary Studies
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
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Små- och storskalig textdigitalisering
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Storskalig textanalys i centrum
• Distant reading (Moretti)
• Algoritmic criticism (Ramsay)
• Macronalaysis (Jockers)
Gemensamt:
• Datorstödda metoder
• Kvantitativa metoder
(hos Jockers och Moretti även
generalism)
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Litteraturhistoriens data
• “unfathomably large deluge of data and cultural material that the digital age has already unleashed, something that will require humanists to contend with text-mining tools, machine reading, and various kinds of algorithmic analyses”
• Todd Presner (2011) ”Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On the Possible Futures for A Discipline”, A Companion to Comparative Literature, ed Ali Behdadoch Dominic Thomas
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Problem 1: materialtyp
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Problem 2: flerspråkiga material
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Problem 3: formalismens återkomst
)
One might argue that
the computer is simply
amplifying the critic's
powers of perception
and recall in concert
with conventional
perspectives. This is
true, and some
applications of the
concept can be viewed
as a lateral extension of
Formalism, New
Criticism, Structuralism,
and so forth.
Sentiment and Plot Arcs: Syuzhet Package
http://www.matthewjockers.net/2014/06/05/a-novel-method-for-
detecting-plot/
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Hermeneutik + formalisering?Hermeneutik formalisering?
• “the computational turn does not involve ‘just’ a specific formalisation of research hermeneutics; it possibly also involves a specific formalisation of the research thought process” (288)
”Cultures of Formalization. Towards an Encounter between Humanities and Computing” (2012).
Van Zundert et al, In Understanding the Digital Humanities, ed. David Berry. Basinstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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Utmaningar
• Konflikt mellan generalism och
specialisering
• Konflikt mellan kritisk teori och
datadriven forskning
• Vems litteraturhistoria är
digitaliserad?
• ”Archives are not sites of knowledge
retrieval but of knowledge production;
not recorded moments of history but
monuments of states, colonies,
empires” (Koh, Inspecting the Nineteenth-
Century Literary Digital Archive. Omissions of
Empire. Journal of Victorian Culture 2014
19(3):385–395 )
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Möjligheter
• Crowdsourcing/Citizen
humanities
• Använd, samla och
redigera metadata
• DIY/small digital
humanities
• Fler litteraturhistoriker
inom DH!