Entries by Katja Mihurko-Poniz

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DISTANT READING RECOMMENDS: SAB BY Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

The ninth article of the Distant Reading Recommends series was written by Borja Navarro Colorado (Universidad de Alicante) and Rosario Arias (Universidad de Málaga) In 1840, the Spanish writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, 1814 – Madrid, 1873) published in Madrid Sab, a highly critical novel of the society of that time. The novel denounces both […]

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KEYNOTE LECTURE BY DR. OLEG SOBCHUK: DISTANT READING AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A METHOD MEETS A THEORY

Distant reading is an umbrella term for methods of large-scale cultural analysis. These methods are often borrowed from the nomothetic sciences – ones that address general, theoretical questions. However, most often, digital humanists employ distant reading for answering idiographic questions – ones about unique cultural phenomena. In this talk I will argue that scholars of […]

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Closing conference

The COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History is delighted to announce that its closing conference takes place on April 21-22, 2022 in an online-only format.  The conference is co-organized as a common event of the Distant Reading and the Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS INFRA) projects. The local organizer is the Jagiellonian University […]

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Distant Reading Recommends: Tovaryshky [Friends] by Olena Pchilka

The eight article of the Distant Reading Recommends series was written by Dmytro Yesypenko. Ukrainian literature can hardly be considered as well-known in Europe. It is not broadly represented in university courses and its translations make a rather rare appearance on the shelves of bookstores, even in neighboring countries. However, in Ukraine, literary classics are not just […]

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Distant Reading Recommends: SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT BY BEATRICE HARRADEN

The seventh article of the Distant Reading Recommends series was written by MA students Luminița Andrada Baldovin, Georgiana Aurelia Crivăț, Gianina Drăgan, Diana Florentina Geantă, Andra-Mihaela Vlădoiu under the coordination of Associate Professor Carmen Duțu, PhD, from the Anglo-American Intercultural Studies MA program at Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest. They wrote about Ships that Pass […]

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WEBINAR “THRESHOLDS TO THE ‘GREAT UNREAD’: TITLING PRACTICES ACROSS MULTILINGUAL COLLECTIONS OF EUROPEAN NOVELS”

We celebrated the Day of Digital Humanities 2021 with the »Thresholds to the ‘Great Unread’: Titling Practices across Multilingual Collections of European Novels« webinar. As this year’s theme was multilingual DH, six Action members (Carolin Odebrecht, Rosario Arias, Berenike J. Herrmann, Cvetana Krstev, Katja Mihurko Poniž and Dmytro Yesypenko) presented the article Thresholds to the […]

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