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
Author: Elena Vasileva
A name or not a name? Tagging names in Dostoevsky
One of the TEI manuals that we have been using to teach ourselves this encoding language states that different types of names are easily discernable in a text because they usually are proper nouns. Well, Dostoevsky offers his own take on what names are and how future DH scholars are to trace them. The element … Continue reading A name or not a name? Tagging names in Dostoevsky
About me: Elena
Hello! I'm Elena Vasileva, a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. I am writing a dissertation on the memory of Russian modernism, where I look at how this memory was formed in memoirs and literary fiction that were created after modernism ceased to exist as a cultural institution. … Continue reading About me: Elena
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