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
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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”
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
Revisiting Names in The Double
As Kate mentioned in her status update, one thing we have been working on for the past few months is naming in The Double. Some of the initial steps, questions, and problems in working with names were written about by Lena in her post from before our hiatus. Not too long after that blog went … Continue reading Revisiting Names in The Double
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
Digital Dostoevsky 