- A Blog Post by Veronika Sizova While encoding Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent using XML and TEI, I came across a particular issue: almost all internal monologues of the novel’s protagonists include imagined speech from the past or future, sometimes turning into complex imaginary dialogues which are extremely difficult to code because the temporality fluctuates … Continue reading Speech within Speech, or the Literary “Inception” in Dostoevsky’s “The Adolescent”
Tagging Speech in Notes from Underground: a Journey Through Layers of Reality
When I first began working on using XML and TEI to tag Notes from Underground as an inexperienced coder, I was lulled into a false sense of security by the first half of the novel. Sure, I still had plenty of tagging difficulties, including a family of dentists, a mythological bird nobody had heard of, … Continue reading Tagging Speech in Notes from Underground: a Journey Through Layers of Reality
Spring Developments: A Summary
Digital Dostoevsky has had a very busy spring, with lots of significant project developments. First, we worked with a developer, Simon Wiles, to automate the tagging of our remaining corpus of five novels and one novella for structure as well as speech and names. Simon helped us to put empty TEI headers, <p> tags to … Continue reading Spring Developments: A Summary
Names and The Double’s Existence
At the moment of publication of this post, Russia continues its unprovoked war against Ukraine. The horrific crimes against the Ukrainian people has happened every day for over two months. It is not and cannot be forgotten or ignored as we research texts in Russian. One of the basic yet pointed questions about The Double … Continue reading Names and The Double’s Existence
Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
We paused after our last blog entry on Digital Dostoevsky in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its devastating consequences. As Dostoevsky scholars we have been reflecting on our field together with other Russianists and Slavists and considering a way forward that will be more critical towards the accepted paradigms of our discipline. … Continue reading Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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