We perform digital analysis on literary texts not to answer questions, but to generate questions. The questions digital analysis can answer are generally not ‘interesting’ in a humanist sense: but the questions digital analysis provokes often are. And these questions have to be answered by ‘traditional’ literary methods. Here’s an example. Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, head […]
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What happens in Hamlet?
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare
Also tagged Farah Karim-Cooper, Hamlet, pronoun I, Wordhoard
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The comic ‘I’ and the tragic ‘we’?
In our Shakespeare Quarterly paper, we used Docuscope to come up with a description of Shakespeare’s comic language which centres on the rapid exchange of singular pronouns: I/you and my/your. We claimed there that Shakespearean comedies typically involve people arguing about things, striving to arrive at a ‘we’ of agreement, but not being able to […]
Posted in Early Modern Drama, Shakespeare
Also tagged comedies, I, pronouns, tragedies, Twelfth Night, we, Wordhoard, you
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