Digital Humanities

Literature and Translation and Computers

A. Introducing quantitative analysis of literature and translation: the things we can do

  1. How to Read a Million Books?
    Reading: Michel et al., Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books (free subscription required)
  2. Counting Dwarves: A Different View of Polish Translations of Tolkien
  3. Simple Numbers in Sienkiewicz
    Reading: Policzmy Trylogię Sienkiewicza
  4. Original, Translation, Inflation: Are All Translations Longer Than Their Originals?
  5. Stylometry: A History
    Reading: Hoover, Quantitative Analysis and Literary Studies

B. Serious Stuff: Multivariate Analyses

C. Final test (download)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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