Computational Drama Analysis: Reflecting on Methods and Interpretations

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Computational Drama Analysis

Reflecting on Methods and Interpretations

Edited by: Melanie Andresen and Nils Reiter

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111071824

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Dramatic texts come with a natural structure of acts, scenes and speech clearly assigned to characters that lends itself to computational analysis: These explicit structures allow for straightforward formalizations without extensive preparatory work. Work on drama has therefore always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies, with its pioneers analyzing drama quantitatively long before the digital age. Today, increasingly large digital text corpora are available and computational literary studies aims at a higher-scaled view on literary history, promising to analyze thousands of literary texts simultaneously. After decades of exploring the possibilities offered by computational methods, the field is now undergoing a phase of consolidation that takes stock of achievements and opportunities and critically reflects the computational methods and interpretations derived from data. Building on insights from the fields' tradition and current research approaches, this volume provides an overview of the status quo of computational drama analysis and explores possible routes for the future.

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Melanie Andresen, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Nils Reiter, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Melanie Andresen and Nils Reiter Open Access Download PDF	1
Detecting Small Worlds in a Corpus of Thousands of Theater Plays Peer Trilcke, Evgeniya Ustinova, Ingo Börner, Frank Fischer and Carsten Milling Open Access Download PDF	7
Exploring Ancient Greek Comedy: Material Engagement Theory and Computational Tools Beatrice Maria Vittoria Gavazza, Leon A. Glaser, Virginia Mastellari and Anna Novokhatko Open Access Download PDF	35
Computational Drama Analysis from Almost Zero Electronic Text: the Case of Alsatian Theater Pablo Ruiz Fabo, Delphine Bernhard, Andrew Briand and Carole Werner Open Access Download PDF	57
“Let every word weigh heavy of her worth”: Examining How Women Enact Power in Shakespeare’s Comedies through Interactive Speech Pattern Visualizations Rebecca M. M. Hicke and David Mimno Open Access Download PDF	87
Annotation and Automated Classification of Dramatic Situations David Mareček, Marie Nováková, Klára Vosecká, Josef Doležal, Tomáš Musil and Rudolf Rosa Open Access Download PDF	107
The Schemer in German Drama Identification and Quantitative Characterization Benjamin Krautter and Janis Pagel Open Access Download PDF	123
From Stage to Page: Stylistic Variation in Fictional Speech Artjoms Šeļa, Ben Nagy, Joanna Byszuk, Laura Hernández-Lorenzo, Botond Szemes and Maciej Eder Open Access Download PDF	149
Tragic and Comical Networks Clustering Dramatic Genres According to Structural Properties Botond Szemes and Bence Vida Open Access Download PDF	167
Emotions in Stage Directions in German Drama of the Early Modern Period Explorations via Computational Emotion Classification Katrin Dennerlein, Thomas Schmidt and Christian Wolff Open Access Download PDF	189
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars from Computational Literary Studies, Literary studies, and Digital Humanities
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 45
- Tables: 34
Keywords: Computational literary studies; drama; digital humanities; computational humanities

eBook

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783111071824

Hardcover

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783111071763