Literary Approach Using GIS Collaboration
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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.
![2 of 7Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities
“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
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- 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
- 2. 2 of 7Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities “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 Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities 3 of 7
- 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 Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities 4 of 7
- 5. Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities 5 of 7 <1940 1940-1979 >1979 Literary wolf spatial dimension: time of the narrative
- 6. Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities 6 of 7 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. Digital Texts and Geographical Technologies in the Digital Humanities 7 of 7