Exciting news for the project! Thanks to our new SSHRC Insight Grant, longtime team member Braxton Boyer now joins Computational Dostoevsky in a new role as a postdoctoral fellow. Braxton will be taking the lead on data management for the project and assist with further research on the encoded novels. This new role also means relocation … Continue reading Braxton Boyer joins Computational Dostoevsky as Postdoctoral Fellow
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New article on minimalist DH pedagogy and our undergrad TEI workshop and program
Last month we published a new article as part of a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy on "Minimalist DH Pedagogy" edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh. The full special issue can be found here, open access: JITP 27. Our article, "A Dostoevsky … Continue reading New article on minimalist DH pedagogy and our undergrad TEI workshop and program
Speech within Speech, or the Literary “Inception” in Dostoevsky’s “The Adolescent”
- 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
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