The Distant Reading Compendium
Welcome to the Distant Reading Compendium. This virtual edited volume unites contributions that have emerged from the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204).
Note that this edited volume is both virtual (in the sense that the papers included here have first been published elsewhere, in Open Access, and are only referenced and contextualized here) and a work in progress (in the sense that we will add further papers emerging from the COST Action network in the future).
Reference: The Distant Reading Compendium, edited by Christof Schöch and Maciej Eder. Trier: Distant Reading for European Literary History, 2022. URL: distantreading.github.io/compendium/, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6513699.
Front Matter
Introduction to the volume
Christof Schöch and Maciej Eder
This introduction presents the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literature, which ran from 2017 to 2022, and its key output, the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). We aim to structure and summarize the key findings reported on in the various publications that make up this virtual edited volume of publications that have been created by the participants in this networking project.
Section 1: Building ELTeC
This section is dedicated to papers describing the process of designing and building the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) and encoding the texts contained in each corpus in XML-TEI.
In Search of Comity: TEI for Distant Reading
Lou Burnard, Christof Schöch, Carolin Odebrecht
Creating the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC): Challenges and Perspectives
Christof Schöch, Roxana Patraș, Diana Santos, Tomaž Erjavec
The Serbian Part of the ELTeC – from the Empty List to the 100 Novels Collection
Aleksandra Trtovac, Vasilije Milnović, and Cvetana Krstev
Novels and Authors of the Serbian ELTeC Collection
Cvetana Krstev, Ranka Stanković
OCR and TEI for the Production of ELTeC – Würzburg Training School, 16-17 April 2018
Jelena Andonovski
From Close to Distant Reading of 100 Romanian Novels
Luiza Marinescu
Section 2: Annotating ELTeC
This section contains papers concerned with the process of adding annotations to one or several ELTeC collections, in particular annotations pertaining to part of speech, dependency relations, and named entities.
Annotation of the Serbian ELTeC Collection
Ranka Stanković, Cvetana Krstev, Branislava Šandrih Todorović, and Mihailo Škorić
Distant Reading Training School 2020: Named Entity Recognition & Geo-Tagging for Literary Analysis
Ranka Stanković
Section 3: Analysing ELTeC
The papers in this section are dedicated to the analysis of one or several of the corpora contained in ELTeC, with the focus being for example on the titles of the novels or on detecting direct speech.
Thresholds to the ‘Great Unread’: Titling Practices in Eleven ELTeC Collections
Roxana Patras, Carolin Odebrecht, Ioana Galleron, Rosario Arias, Berenike J. Herrmann, Cvetana Krstev, Katja Mihurko Poniž, Dmytro Yesypenko
Detecting Direct Speech in Multilingual Collection of 19th Century Novels
Joanna Byszuk, Michał Woźniak, Mike Kestemont, Albert Leśniak, Wojciech Łukasik, Artjoms Šeļa, Maciej Eder, and others
Short Term Scientific Mission to Krakow: Comparative Stylistic and Morphosyntactic Analysis of ELTeC Texts Using Stylo R Package
Mihailo Škorić
Workshop “Methods and Tools of Distant Reading Adapted to Multiple European Languages” at the Galway Training School
Mihailo Škorić
From Onions to Champagne – Food and Drink in the SrpELTeC Corpus
Duško Vitas
SrpELTeC on Platforms: Udaljeno čitanje, Aurora, noSketch
Ranka Stanković, Mihailo Škorić, and Petar Popović
White as Snow, Black as Night – Similes in Old Serbian Literary Texts
Cvetana Krstev
Ideas and Observations from the Time of the ELTeC Corpus – a Selection of Quotations
Cvetana Krstev
Serbian ELTeC Sub-Collection in Wikidata
Milica Ikonić Nešić, Ranka Stanković, and Biljana Rujević
Periodização automática: Estudos linguístico-estatísticos de literatura lusófona
Diana Santos, Emanoel Pires, Cláudia Freitas, Rebeca Schumacher Fuão, and João Marques Lopes
Analysis of Similes in Serbian Literary Texts (1860-1920) Using Computational Methods
Cvetana Krstev, Jelena Jaćimović, and Duško Vitas
Textometric Methods and the TXM Platform for Corpus Analysis and Visual Presentation
Jelena Jaćimović
Doctors in Lusophone Literature
Diana Santos
Section 4: Theoretical concerns
This section is dedicated to papers that address issues of literary theory and literary history that are of concern when digital corpora and algorithmic methods of analysis are used in Literary Studies.
Apie skaitymą iš toli ir iš arti [About Distant and Close Reading]
Saulius Keturakis
Section 5: Beyond ELTeC, beyond the Action
Work in the Action has in many cases also looked beyond ELTeC or beyond the immediate context of the Action to consider more general issues of Distant Reading, Computational Literary Studies, or Digital Humanities. This section contains papers from this angle.
The Splendors and Mist(Eries) of Romanian Digital Literary Studies
Roxana Patras, Ioana Galleron, Camelia Gradinaru, Ioana Lionte, and Lucreţia Pascaru
Stylometry in a Bilingual Setup
Silvie Cinková and Jan Rybicki
Parallel Stylometric Document Embeddings with Deep Learning Based Language Models in Literary Authorship Attribution
Mihailo Škorić, Ranka Stanković, Milica Ikonić Nešić, Joanna Byszuk, and Maciej Eder
These Quick-Reading Times: Distant Reading Moore’s Poetic Style
Justin Tonra
What Is Distant Reading?
Justin Tonra
On Poetic Topic Modeling: Extracting Themes and Motifs From a Corpus of Spanish Poetry
Borja Navarro-Colorado
Europäische Literaturgeschichte. Ein Gespräch mit Christof Schöch
Christof Schöch
Die europäische Literaturgeschichte wird neu geschrieben. Digital Humanities an Uni Trier bereiten Literatur neu auf
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Section 6: Distant Reading Recommends
This section references the blog posts from the Distant Reading Recommends series. The posts in this series describe individual novels from ELTeC that have been unjustly forgotten.
Distant Reading Recommends: Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Borja Navarro Colorado and Rosario Arias
Distant Reading Recommends: Tovaryshky (Friends) by Olena Pchilka
Dmytro Yesypenko
Distant Reading Recommends: Ships that Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden
Luminița Andrada Baldovin, Georgiana Aurelia Crivăț, Gianina Drăgan, Diana Florentina Geantă, and Andra-Mihaela Vlădoiu
Distant Reading Recommends: Zeleno busenje (Green Turf) by Edhem Mulabdić
Vedad Mulavdić, and Meliha Handžić
Distant Reading Recommends: Beatin dnevnik (Beata’s Diary) by Luiza Pesjak
Katja Mihurko Poniž
Distant Reading Recommends: Nove (The New Women) by Jelena Dimitrijević
Cvetana Krstev, and Vasilije Milnovic
Distant Reading Recommends: Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov
Ellie Boyadzhieva
Distant Reading Recommends: Iancu Jianu by N. D. Popescu
Roxana Patras
Distant Reading Recommends: Kuprelis (The Hunchback) by Ignas Šeinius
Saulius Keturakis
Downloads and links
- A list of all papers in the Distant Reading Compendium in PDF format
- All papers listed here in BibTex format for import in reference managers
- All papers listed here as a ZIP archive of PDF files
- The full bibliography of papers and presentations produced by Action members, curated on Zotero
- The website of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204)