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
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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.Β 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