The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age - A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning

What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.

Info autore

José Calvo Tello, born in 1987, works as a researcher and subject librarian at Göttingen State and University Library. He obtained his doctorate in Humanities from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany) with a thesis about machine learning and other computational methods applied to the Spanish novel. His research is focused on the application and development of computational methods such as machine learning and natural language processing applied to romance literatures and library records.

Riassunto

What distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.

Testo aggiuntivo

Besprochen in:Anales de Literatura Espaola, 37 (2022), Dolores Romero López

Relazione

Besprochen in:
Anales de Literatura Espaola, 37 (2022), Dolores Romero López

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: José Calvo Tello, José Calvo Tello
• Editore: Transcript
• Lingue: Inglese, Tedesco
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2021
• EAN: 9783837659252
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5925-2
• Pagine: 470
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 33 mm x 228 mm
• Peso: 722 g
• Illustrazioni: 91 SW-Abb., 32 Farbabb.
• Serie: Digital Humanities Research
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali; Literaturtheorie, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Literature, Media Studies, Bielefeld University Press, Forschungsmethoden, allgemein, Cultural Studies, Spanische und portugiesische Literatur, Science, Social interaction, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, Knowledge, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Digital Humanities, Theory of Literature, Spanish Literature, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science, Computer science, information and general works