This document discusses an interdisciplinary project analyzing Portuguese literary texts using close reading and geographic information systems (GIS). The project involves students and academics from various fields collaborating to analyze excerpts from over 190 literary works published between 1843-2012. Over 4,000 excerpts have been added to a shared database along with metadata on space, time, and meaning. GIS is used to visualize spatial and temporal patterns in how locations like Lisbon are represented over different historical periods. The project website and two published papers are cited that discuss analyzing representations of wolves and urban space in Lisbon literature through the digital tools.

1. An approach to literary texts, collaborative work and GIS
Daniel Alves (IHC)
Ana Isabel Queiroz (IELT)
Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities, Lancaster University, 8-9th July 2013

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“De um lapedo bronco dois lobos surdiram
amarelados e esguios, na aba da montanha.
Esqueléticos, cheios de fome, começaram a uivar e a
farejar hirsutos. Foram descendo, vagarosos e
arfantes, fariscando a presa.”
Literary excerpt from “Os Lobos” [TheWolves], by
Júlio Brandão, 1900
“Uma tarde, flamava Arthur por entre as boscagens
doCampo Grande, fumando cachimbo n'uma
d'aquellas indolencias d'artista, que abrem lenitivo no
meio dos grandes trabalhos, quando ao virar d'uma
alea, deu de cara com Albano.”
Literary excerpt from “A Cidade doVício” [The City of
Vice], by Fialho de Almeida, 1882
From literary texts, those complex objects...
… to Environmental History and Urban History!
... through the tiny boxes of
“space”, “time” and “meaning”,
and the structured encapsulation
of the digital tools...

3.  Close reading: a thorough analysis of texts,
executed through a specific reading protocol
 Collaborative and interdisciplinary work:
literary studies students, academic
researchers and high school teachers from
Literature, History, Anthropology, Natural
Sciences, and others
 Shared SQL database and GIS
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4.  Started in 2010, the LITESCAPE.PT project
has, so far:
 4225 literary excerpts...
 from 195 literary works...
 by 99 writers...
 dated between 1843 and 2012
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<1940 1940-1979 >1979
Literary wolf spatial dimension: time of the narrative

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1852-1910 1910-1926
1926-1974 1974-2009
Density of
the literary
space in
Lisbon
(places by
period)

7.  http://paisagensliterarias.ielt.org/
 Ana Isabel Queiroz, Margarida Fernandes and
Filipa Soares, “The Portuguese LiteraryWolf.”
Literary and Linguistic Computing, December
6, 2013.
 DanielAlves and Ana Isabel Queiroz.
“Studying urban space and literary
representations using GIS: Lisbon, Portugal,
1852-2009.” Social Science History 37, no. 4
(2013): 457-481.
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