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

About Me: Marcin

Hi, I'm Marcin Cieszkiel. I'm one of the library research assistants at the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre at the John P. Robarts Research Library, working on the Digital Dostoevsky project. My research looks at post-WWII Polish émigré organizations and deals with questions of historiography, philosophy of memory, culture, and history. Dostoevsky weaves these … Continue reading About Me: Marcin