A Brief Overview of the Corse So Far The digital humanities 100 class focuses on the concept of distant reading– looking for underlying themes in huge corpora of texts using digital analyzing tools. We were asked to find a topic that we could research, create a question for that research, and finally put together a […]
As Professor Faull has repeatedly said, corpus construction can be the most difficult part of textual analysis. After a few weeks into my research, I have found that she could not be more correct. First there is the task of collecting works for the corpus, which can involve internet searches leading to parts of the […]
Creating a Corpus for Dummies
Upon commencing my journey to create a corpus serviceable for the purpose of literary, yet empirical, investigation, I decided to look into a topic that seemed to be just mysterious to the writers as it seemed to the readers. By doing this I hoped to be able to discover facts or ideas about the text […]