September 7, 2023

Royal Library Denmark: New research translates Holberg’s comedies into numbers and statistics

Royal Library Denmark: New research translates Holberg’s comedies into numbers and statistics. “For the past three years, the theatre researchers Ulla Kallenbach (University of Bergen), Anna Lawaetz (Royal Danish Library) and Annelis Kuhlmann (Aarhus University) and a number of programmers from the Royal Danish Library/Deic and Centre for Humanities Computing Aarhus worked on developing tools for digital analyses of Ludvig Holberg’s drama… Here, Holberg’s comedies are converted into statistics, figures and numbers with the aim of investigating how digital analysis can be used in a stage reading.”

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August 17, 2023

The Forward: Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day

The Forward: Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day. “Beginning in the 1890s, newspapers, including the Forverts, tried to appeal to a broader audience by publishing popular fiction derisively called ‘shund’ or ‘trash.’ Yiddish authors like Sholem Aleichem and Y.L. Peretz strove to create a national literature. Shund stories, on the other hand, were written to make a profit, veering into the sensational and melodramatic — tales of romance, adventure, anything that would sell.”

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July 23, 2023

Virginia Woolf: Personal copy of debut novel resurfaces (BBC)

BBC: Virginia Woolf: Personal copy of debut novel resurfaces. “Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, has been fully digitised for the first time. The book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years. It is the only publicly available copy of its kind and contains rare inscriptions and edits.”

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July 17, 2023

British Library Knowledge Matters Blog: Building a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books | User Stories

British Library Knowledge Matters Blog: Building a Minecraft Gateway to the World of Books | User Stories . “Professor Sally Bushell drew on the British Library collections to create Litcraft, a project that builds worlds in Minecraft to inspire reluctant readers. Her most recent Litcraft game is called Steampunk Sherlock Holmes. Sally is a Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. “

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June 8, 2023

Colorado State University: Social media misinformation theory draws on classic tragedies, platform algorithms

Colorado State University: Social media misinformation theory draws on classic tragedies, platform algorithms. “Drawing on literature’s roots in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy and philosophical explorations of the nature of truth, Nick Roberts and Hamed Qahri-Saremi advance a theory that looks to explain how misinformation on social media platforms can lead people to take real-world actions with disastrous consequences.”

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May 19, 2023

Universität Zürich: Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO

Universität Zürich: Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO. “The Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives in Zurich have been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World International Register. The decision by the Executive Board of UNESCO acknowledges the collections’ universal importance. The University of Zurich will be working with both institutions to promote the academic study of the collections.”

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May 17, 2023

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Luandino Vieira’s Prison Papers gathered in a new digital archive

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Luandino Vieira’s Prison Papers gathered in a new digital archive. “Most of José Luandino Vieira’s fictional work was written during the 12 years in which he was imprisoned following his political activity in pursuit of Angolan independence…. During his imprisonment, Luandino Vieira produced 17 notebooks composed of diary entries, correspondence, postcards, drawings, popular songs, literary sketches, translation exercises, sayings, texts in Kimbundu, news clippings and notes.” Direct link to the archive because I had a hard time finding it: https://luandino.ces.uc.pt/index.php?&id_lingua=2 . (This link goes to the English version of the site.)

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February 2, 2023

University of Cambridge: Memes-field Park? ‘Digital natives’ are flirting with Jane Austen’s vision of the ideal man all over again

University of Cambridge: Memes-field Park? ‘Digital natives’ are flirting with Jane Austen’s vision of the ideal man all over again. “In a newly-published analysis, literature specialists examined the phenomenon of internet memes about Jane Austen and her fictional creations, in particular those from Pride and Prejudice and, above all, Mr Darcy. Austen’s work is ‘memed’ – turned into bite-sized, ironic snippets of online content – more than almost any other author of classic fiction.”

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January 12, 2023

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery

Sent to me by my Twitter pal Mandy W: The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery . From the About page. “Welcome to the Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery! Here you will find all the original illustrations to Charles Dickens’s novels (and Sketches by Boz), where you are free to download, browse, share, remix, research, or use in whatever ways you can imagine.”

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January 9, 2023

Asahi Shimbun: Students lay groundwork for research project on Donald Keene

Asahi Shimbun: Students lay groundwork for research project on Donald Keene. “Students have taken the lead in a project to sort out more than 7,000 books in the collections of American-born Japanese literature expert Donald Keene (1922-2019). Toyo University, Tokyo’s Kita Ward and the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation in July signed an agreement to scrutinize the collections of the scholar who introduced Japanese literature and culture to people around the world.”

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December 17, 2022

De Montfort University: Experts see potential in new DMU web tool revealing the making of classic TV drama

De Montfort University: Experts see potential in new DMU web tool revealing the making of classic TV drama. “Literary experts have seen ‘wide-ranging potential’ in a new kind of online resource in development by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) researchers. A team from DMU’s Centre for Adaptations have created an interactive website that shows step-by-step how George Eliot’s classic novel, Middlemarch, was adapted as a BBC serial in 1994.”

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November 17, 2022

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: New initiative will make Cather’s manuscripts available online

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: New initiative will make Cather’s manuscripts available online. “Every novel and short story written by Willa Cather went through many iterations — from early penciled drafts by Cather herself to typed drafts edited by her partner, Edith Lewis, to printed proofs before publication — and soon, the Willa Cather Archive at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will make all of these documents available in scanned and digitized form.”

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