My Corpus Construction I created my corpus using older translations of The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Aeneid, and The Argonautica. I cleaned it manually. The reason why I chose to stick with the old translations of the texts is because it gives me a different view on the text. Because I have read […]
My Corpus Creation
When I started creating my corpus, I knew exactly what I wanted to include in it. I plan to eventually write my own heroic epic poem, and in order to do so I must first analyze a few pieces of previous works to see what some commonalities are. I found copies of 4 epic plays […]
What is Distant Reading?
Distant reading is a practice that is becoming more and more popular as our technologies and resources evolve. Distant reading allows us to take a text that we may have already read in a traditional sense and to then see it in a new light. Imagine that you have already read the novel Harry Potter […]