In our most recent blogpost, “Encoding Dostoevsky,” you read that one of the first elements of Dvoinik that we decided to tag (apart from purely structural components like paragraphs) was speech. At the time, this seemed like a fairly straightforward endeavor -- how hard can talking be, right? -- but in hindsight this may have … Continue reading Tagging Speech in Dvoinik
Encoding Dostoevsky
One of the central aspects of our methodology in the project at present is encoding Dostoevsky’s novels. Here “encoding” means tagging using XML tags (XML = extendable markup language) following the TEI guidelines (TEI = Text Encoding Initiative). The TEI has created a massive, thousands of pages long guide to best practices in tagging and … Continue reading Encoding 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
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
About Me: Braxton
I’m Braxton Boyer, a Ph.D. student in Russian literature at the University of Toronto. Most of my academic life revolves around the later writings of Leo Tolstoy and Russian religious thought and culture in general. My main interest is exploring how religious belief and spirituality influence literary form. I also like thinking about the reverse … Continue reading About Me: Braxton
Digital Dostoevsky 