Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Debnár, Marek

Over the last decades, the significant increase in digital resources has initiated research into the humanities and social sciences that is based on data, technology, and quantitative statistical methods. What all this research has in common is the concept of the digital humanities (hereinafter referred to as DH), which has even influenced the classic and perhaps most common approach to knowledge in the humanities – reading. Extensive digitisation of manuscripts, books, magazines, and other texts into electronic corpora has created a need not only to rethink and redefine the concept of reading and its variations (especially in relation to close reading and distant reading), but also to specify the methodology and possibilities of digital text analysis. This monographic edition of Slovenská literatúra aims to present digital literary research in the wider context of specific research programmes, projects, and infrastructures. This edition has been published with the support of the Slovak Academy of Sciences provided as part of the international scientific and technical cooperation project COST Action CA 16204: Distant Reading for European Literary History (1840 – 1920).

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Authors: Debnár, Marek - Yesypenko, Dmytro

The paper deals with problems of building representative digital literary collections of national literatures, in particular those of Slovak and Ukrainian literatures, within the international context of the project European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). At the beginning text characterizes the requirements laid down on creation and representativeness of such a national multilingual literary collection, which is established as a result of the project COST – Distant Reading for European Literary History (1840 – 1920) and analyzes various factors related to literary production in Slovakia and Ukraine. On the one hand, it includes a discrepancy between stronger partners of the project (socalled great European literatures) and weaker partners (so-called small literatures), on the other hand, the factor of accessibility of digital sources corresponding to the requirements of a project of this kind.

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Authors: Boszorád, Martin - Malíček, Juraj

The main ambition of the paper is a reflection on the relation between literature and digitality, or verification of the potential of reserch into literature seen in the context of the (post)digital civilizational and cultural situation, which decisively influences the way literature as such exists, or the way it circulates and resonates in culture. The subject of the interest is digitalized literature, i.e. converted into numbers, in a narrow or specific sense, new-medium literature. The authors use the example of Andrzej Sapkowsky's fiction and its video game post-texts produced by the developer CD Projekt Red to find out what happens to literature converted into the form of a digital game. The leitmotif of the reflection is the binary opposition of the iconic (defining literature) and the operative (defining digital games) as well as the very literary scientific and fundamental issues such as the issue of a story and its relation to narration. In terms of the concept and the method, the key question is the question of the genre, i.e. fantasy, where the authors reflect on the specific form of digital literature from the perspective of pop culture, i.e. the optics which makes it possible to view the matters not through the prism of literary types but through the prism of genres.

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Authors: Piorecký, Karel - Škrabal, Michal

The paper is an attempt at a quantitative corpus related approach to the subject of multilingualism in contemporary Czech poetry (published both in books and on literary servers). The authors of the paper examine the frequency and distribution of foreign (i.e., non-Czech) lexical units, raising questions about the forms and functions of individual lexemes. Three selected poets (T. Kafka, M. Šanda, M. Torčík) are then analyzed more in-depth. The paper is also a report about a currently developed database – The Corpus of Contemporary Czech Poetry – and possibilities of using it. It suggests how beneficial the quantitative data analysis in the first phase of linguistically oriented literary research can be, pointing to the necessity of interconnecting the quantitative and qualitative approaches. It is only the researcher´s interpretative competence that can define the boundaries of the research field and the significance of its elements. When conducting text-centered analyses, language corpora should begin to play a role similar to other scientific infrastructure tools, such as bibliographic databases.

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Authors: Zumrík, Miroslav

The paper reflects on a freely accessible program to annote, analyze and visualize literary texts called CATMA, which is developed by the narratological team led by Jan Christoph Meister in Hamburg, which follows the tradition of the German research into the area of digital or quantitative narratology. The design of the annotation program develops the conceptual apparatus of classical narratology and these (e.g. Genettian types of anisochrony) are implemented in digitally supported analysis and interpretation of semantics in the genre of short story. Furthermore, annotation and visualization do not replace quantitative analysis, what they do is prepare for a literary scientist a kind of a cognitive map which may help them notice potentially interesting (ir)regularities of texture of the work (grammatical, morphological, semantic features). The CATMA tool thus opens possibilities not only for quantitative study of authors´corpora but also for analysis of motifs which are in the sense of narrative semantics of fictitious worlds as formulated by Lubomír Doležel intentionally expressed by means of distribution of linguistic signs.