Computational Drama Analysis
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Edited by:
Melanie Andresen
About this book
Dramatic texts come with a natural structure of acts, scenes and speech clearly assigned to characters that lends itself to computational analysis: These explicit structures allow for straightforward formalizations without extensive preparatory work. Work on drama has therefore always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies, with its pioneers analyzing drama quantitatively long before the digital age. Today, increasingly large digital text corpora are available and computational literary studies aims at a higher-scaled view on literary history, promising to analyze thousands of literary texts simultaneously. After decades of exploring the possibilities offered by computational methods, the field is now undergoing a phase of consolidation that takes stock of achievements and opportunities and critically reflects the computational methods and interpretations derived from data. Building on insights from the fields' tradition and current research approaches, this volume provides an overview of the status quo of computational drama analysis and explores possible routes for the future.
Author / Editor information
Melanie Andresen, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Nils Reiter, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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Detecting Small Worlds in a Corpus of Thousands of Theater Plays
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Exploring Ancient Greek Comedy: Material Engagement Theory and Computational Tools
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Computational Drama Analysis from Almost Zero Electronic Text: the Case of Alsatian Theater
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“Let every word weigh heavy of her worth”: Examining How Women Enact Power in Shakespeare’s Comedies through Interactive Speech Pattern Visualizations
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Annotation and Automated Classification of Dramatic Situations
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The Schemer in German Drama
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From Stage to Page: Stylistic Variation in Fictional Speech
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Tragic and Comical Networks
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Emotions in Stage Directions in German Drama of the Early Modern Period
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List of Contributors
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