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Mapping a landscape of texts
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Abstract
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| What does ‘mapping’ mean when applied to a large corpus of artistic documents one wishes to examine? How can the methodologies of ‘distant reading’ (Franco Moretti) be applied to contemporary performative writing? In order to translate a corpus of texts into a spatial map, this paper proposes to use tools from computational linguistics and information visualization. For the research project ‘Belgium is Happening’, a large corpus of performative writings from Flemish and Dutch post-war theatre was digitized. These were processed computationally in order to determine their intertextual distances. Next, the set of all document nodes and their intertextual distances was visualized as a series of network graphs. The resulting graphs clearly distinguish authorship clusters. They make clear which authors wrote in a closely related style, and help to identify specific subgenres of experimental writing and style. Such a map literally provides a bird's eye view of the different experimental texts, and it also makes it possible to question existing groupings in literary history using the results of the automatic clustering approach. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Performance research : a journal of performing arts. - London, 1996, currens
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Publication
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London
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Routledge
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2012
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ISSN
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1352-8165
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1469-9990
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DOI
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10.1080/13528165.2012.696873
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Volume/pages
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17
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(2012)
, p. 120-124
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ISI
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000305699400019
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