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Informatica umanistica, Digital Humanities: verso quale modernità?
No full textSe le denominazioni di Informatica Umanistica e Digital Humanities evocate dal titolo richiamano l’attenzione su complessi problemi di definizione di un ambito di studi dai confini sfuggenti e in costante evoluzione, è principalmente la domanda «verso quale modernità?» a orientare la riflessione di questo volume, che raccoglie le considerazioni emerse dal Convegno organizzato nell’ottobre 2022 dal Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca della Modernità (CIRM) presso l’Università degli Studi di Bari. Delineando un possibile “stato dell’arte” della riflessione nel nostro Paese sullo sfondo dello scenario internazionale, i contributi raccolti nel volume mirano, parallelamente, a far luce su possibili linee di evoluzione dell’attuale panorama, coniugando aspetti teorico-metodologici e applicativi, individuando punti di forza e criticità dei casi di studio presi in esame. Nella pluralità delle prospettive di ricerca proposte, il volume solleva interrogativi diversi e suggerisce riflessioni in settori che spaziano dall’archivistica alla biblioteconomia, dall’editoria alla didattica e in ambiti disciplinari che vanno dalle arti figurative alla musicologia, dalla linguistica, alla filologia, alla letteratura, dove l’ausilio di vari strumenti di analisi del testo digitalmente assistita hanno aperto nuovi orizzonti ermeneutici e possibilità di analisi
Introduction to Portraits of Merchants. Multifocal Approaches to Money, Credit and the Market
No full textSubstantial forms of interaction and intersection between the
seemingly disparate fields of Economics and the Humanities have
also been brought to light in a much wider literary and cultural
scene. This Introduction illusrates the theoretical framework of the volume and its key contribution to the ongoing debate
"My well-won thrift which he calls interest". Merchants and Usurers on the Elizabethan Stage
No full textIn the wake of recent insights into the discursive practices of ‘debt’ and ‘credit’ (Kolb-Oppotz-Trotman 2020; Kolb 2021) in early modern English culture, the essay examines the multifaceted socio-cultural context against which the hybrid, and partly overlapping identities of merchants and usurers took shape in Elizabethan England, and the conflictual ideological models that underpin their characterization on the early modern stage. Considering Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London (1581) and William Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money (1598), along with Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1596-97), the essay explores how issues related to ‘Jewishness’ and to the increasingly disturbing presence of ‘foreigners’, ‘strangers’ and ‘aliens’, that seemed to threaten English national identity, became inextricably related to the Elizabethan discourses on an emerging mercantile society between the 1580s and the 1590s
Culture, big data e Digital Humanities
No full textNell’ambito delle Digital Humanities, la linguistica dei corpora e la linguistica computazionale possono essere viste come due facce della stessa medaglia, il cui valore risiede nel tentativo di integrare aspetti quantitativi e qualitativi dell’analisi linguistica – una sfida resa sempre più affascinante, ma anche impegnativa, dall’aumento esponenziale dei dati linguistici resi disponibili negli ultimi anni. Infatti, nell’era dei big data è inevitabilmente mutata anche la natura delle risorse linguistiche, andando a incidere su approcci, metodi e obiettivi nella ricerca.1 L’aumento e la varietà dei dati disponibili ha determinato la possibilità di esplorare nuove aree di indagine, supportando empiricamente domande di ricerca relative ad ambiti diversi da quello linguistico-letterario. È a questo che pensava un gruppo di studiosi quando, oltre dieci anni fa, nel concludere la conferenza annuale della EADH (European Association for Digital Humanities) proponeva un paper intitolato Culturomics, sostenendo l’uso dell’enorme quantità di dati presenti in Google Books come base per indagini incentrate su fenomeni socio-culturali da esplorare a partire da dati linguistici su base meramente quantitativa. La validità di questo approccio è stata variamente messa in discussione, soprattutto da scuole attente ad un più equilibrato bilanciamento fra aspetti quantitativi e qualitativi, ma l’idea di esplorare i fenomeni culturali a partire dai big data linguistici resta una prospettiva affascinante che merita uno spazio all’interno delle Digital Humanities.
È in questo contesto che il presente lavoro intende riportare i risultati preliminari di un’indagine empirica condotta sul processo che nel corso dei secoli ha trasformato il significato materiale, molto specifico, della parola culture, nel concetto liquido ed estremamente
sfuggente che conosciamo noi oggi. L’analisi parte dai primi risultati
di una ricerca corpus-based sul profilo lessico-grammaticale della parola
culture a partire dai dati contenuti in corpora sincronici dell’inglese
contemporaneo, per poi avviare un’ulteriore indagine sulla
base di risorse linguistiche diacroniche. Per l’inglese contemporaneo
i corpora di di riferimento sono stati il British National Corpus,
ukWaC e EnTenTen 2020. Quanto alle risorse diacroniche, i dati di
Google Books, accessibili sia tramite Ngram Viewer sia attraverso gli
strumenti disponibili nel sito di Mark Davies, BYU Corpora, sono
stati utilizzati per verificare alcune ipotesi sul comportamento della
parola culture nel XIX e XX secolo, mentre i dati del Corpus English
Historical Book Collection, consultato mediante Sketch Engine, sono
stati utilizzati per esplorare dati relativi al periodo compreso tra il
XV e il XVIII secolo.
I risultati parziali di questa ricerca suggeriscono che c’è spazio
per indagini di ampio respiro sulla storia di questa parola così
“complicata”, come l’ha definita Raymond Williams nel suo storico
Keywords, e mostrano come i metodi di ricerca e le risorse linguistiche
sviluppate nella linguistica dei corpora e nella linguistica computazionale
possono integrare studi condotti nell’ambito della storia
della lingua, della sociolinguistica e degli studi culturali, se non
addiruttra fornire le basi per nuove domande di ricerca e ulteriori
indagini, nell’ambito del più ampio alveo delle Digital Humanities
Experiencing Shakespeare in Digital Environments
Full text linkThis special issue on Experiencing Shakespeare in Digital Environments explores the new frontiers of textual and performative spaces opened up by digital media in Shakespeare Studies. Against the background of the ongoing scholarly debate, where the outcomes of digital culture and their far-reaching implications have been examined from a variety of perspectives, the volume identifies three main areas of investigation. The articles of the first section illustrate how increasingly interactive and cross-networked digital environments affect our ways of approaching Shakespeare’s textuality. They touch on a variety of topics that are gaining prominence in the debate, ranging from the digital turn in textual transmission and editorial mediation to the newly available tools and methodologies in source studies and Shakespeare pedagogy, with an eye to the specific cognitive, reading and learning abilities of digital natives. The second section investigates the changing notions of performance against the innovative modes of cross-mediality, trans-mediality, and inter-mediality. It dwells on how the remediation of theatre into the digital media circuit has not only problematized the concept of ‘liveness’ as an essential component of the medium itself but has implied the creation of hybrid products and all sorts of paratexts that need to be understood within new models of global and local communication. As the articles included in this section show, Shakespearean performances – whether they are produced and put on in traditional ‘centres’, like the Globe in London, or in the elsewheres of the world – are growingly broadcast through digital channels: they therefore constantly dialogue with each other thus assuming intercultural meanings that challenge established ways of interpreting and criticizing Shakespeare. The third section is concerned with a broad spectrum of ways in which digital technologies impact the performance, adaptation and transmission of Shakespeare’s works. Including discussions of Shakespeare DVDs, internet memes, televisual hacks, Virtual Reality (VR) installations and a live streaming broadcast from a prison, the contributions contemplate how the digital, in its myriad guises, permeates and updates both the production and reception of Shakespearean codes
‘Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’: Notes on ‘T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man’
No full textCulture as legacy and bond between generations in Aldous
Huxley’s essay, ‘T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man’, is ideally linked back to the debate on humanistic and scientific
cultures at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the following
century, but with a different approach due
also to the period in which it was written (the 1930s). In analysing T. H. Huxley’s
style (a biologist and the author’s grandfather) the writer seems animated
by the desire to reconcile art and science. The fields are different, but not
opposed, and both help in human progress, although in different ways. He
underlines the differences between literature and science: literary legacy
is progressive and cumulative; scientific notions are perishable and ‘fugitive’,
doomed to oblivion, ‘science is soon out of date, art is not’; also
the methods diverge ‘science is investigation’, and ‘Literature is the art of
making statements movingly’. Then the two tracks seem to intersect and
Huxley shows how science can be written in a ‘literary style’ and how art is
a gift which can also be possessed by scientists and unprofessional writers
Digital Humanities e didattica della lingua straniera: riflessioni ed esperienze tra atenei a confronto
No full textPartendo dalle riflessioni sull’applicazione dell’informatica alle discipline umanistiche, e nello specifico, alla didattica delle lingue e delle letterature angloamericane, il presente contributo ambisce a rilanciare la discussione e a inserirsi in un scenario ‘paradigmatico’ profondamente rinnovato e trasformato dall’interazione col digitale a seguito dell’emergenza da COVID-19
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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