Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen
This essay questions whether digital literary studies can still be meaningfully regarded as part of literary studies. This heretical question is motivated by a praxeological view of a research project for the network...
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Forschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel
2018-06-01
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| author | Peer Trilcke Frank Fischer |
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| description | This essay questions whether digital literary studies can still be
meaningfully regarded as part of literary studies. This heretical
question is motivated by a praxeological view of a research project for
the network analysis of dramatic texts, in particular by reflecting on
the project’s underlying ›epistemic thing‹, which in this case consists
of specifically-formatted structural data (and not the actual primary
texts themselves). What does this corpus of structural data, which was
extracted from 465 plays spanning the period from 1730 to 1930, have to
do with the ›epistemic things‹ of literary studies? We explore this
question by providing insight into our analyses, which describe the
structural evolution of the ›plays‹, try to locate ›small world‹
properties in our corpus, and develop new metrics for plot analysis. The
results show not only how digital methods can supplement or enrich
literary studies; they also raise questions about how digital the field
of literary studies already is, since its research objects are
increasingly available in digital forms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-834be2300af2452e8d63ca6b55d034f72023-01-03T07:26:01ZdeuForschungsverbund Marbach Weimar WolfenbüttelZeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften2510-13582018-06-013310.17175/sb003_0031004013299Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen DingenPeer TrilckeFrank Fischerhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2419-6629This essay questions whether digital literary studies can still be meaningfully regarded as part of literary studies. This heretical question is motivated by a praxeological view of a research project for the network analysis of dramatic texts, in particular by reflecting on the project’s underlying ›epistemic thing‹, which in this case consists of specifically-formatted structural data (and not the actual primary texts themselves). What does this corpus of structural data, which was extracted from 465 plays spanning the period from 1730 to 1930, have to do with the ›epistemic things‹ of literary studies? We explore this question by providing insight into our analyses, which describe the structural evolution of the ›plays‹, try to locate ›small world‹ properties in our corpus, and develop new metrics for plot analysis. The results show not only how digital methods can supplement or enrich literary studies; they also raise questions about how digital the field of literary studies already is, since its research objects are increasingly available in digital forms.http://www.zfdg.de/node/227literaturwissenschaftdigital humanitiesnetzwerkanalysedrama |
| spellingShingle | Peer Trilcke Frank Fischer Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften literaturwissenschaft digital humanities netzwerkanalyse drama |
| title | Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie
der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen |
| title_full | Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie
der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen |
| title_fullStr | Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie
der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen |
| title_full_unstemmed | Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie
der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen |
| title_short | Literaturwissenschaft als Hackathon. Zur Praxeologie
der Digital Literary Studies und ihren epistemischen Dingen |
| title_sort | literaturwissenschaft als hackathon zur praxeologie der digital literary studies und ihren epistemischen dingen |
| topic | literaturwissenschaft digital humanities netzwerkanalyse drama |
| url | http://www.zfdg.de/node/227 |
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