TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Literary Landscapes
T2 - From Texts to Spatiotemporal Analysis through Collaborative Work and GIS
AU - Queiroz, Ana Isabel
AU - Alves, Daniel Ribeiro
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - This article argues that the study of literary representations of landscapes can be aided and enriched by the application of digital geographic technologies. As an example, the article focuses on the methods and preliminary findings of LITESCAPE.PT—Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal, an on-going project that aims to study literary representations of mainland Portugal and to explore their connections with social and environmental realities both in the past and in the present. LITESCAPE.PT integrates traditional reading practices and ‘distant reading’ approaches, along with collaborative work, relational databases, and geographic information systems (GIS) in order to classify and analyse excerpts from 350 works of Portuguese literature according to a set of ecological, socioeconomic, temporal and cultural themes. As we argue herein this combination of qualitative and quantitative methods—itself a response to the difficulty of obtaining external funding—can lead to (a) increased productivity, (b) the pursuit of new research goals, and (c) the creation of new knowledge about natural and cultural history. As proof of concept, the article presents two initial outcomes of the LITESCAPE.PT project: a case study documenting the evolving literary geography of Lisbon and a case study exploring the representation of wolves in Portuguese literature.
AB - This article argues that the study of literary representations of landscapes can be aided and enriched by the application of digital geographic technologies. As an example, the article focuses on the methods and preliminary findings of LITESCAPE.PT—Atlas of Literary Landscapes of Mainland Portugal, an on-going project that aims to study literary representations of mainland Portugal and to explore their connections with social and environmental realities both in the past and in the present. LITESCAPE.PT integrates traditional reading practices and ‘distant reading’ approaches, along with collaborative work, relational databases, and geographic information systems (GIS) in order to classify and analyse excerpts from 350 works of Portuguese literature according to a set of ecological, socioeconomic, temporal and cultural themes. As we argue herein this combination of qualitative and quantitative methods—itself a response to the difficulty of obtaining external funding—can lead to (a) increased productivity, (b) the pursuit of new research goals, and (c) the creation of new knowledge about natural and cultural history. As proof of concept, the article presents two initial outcomes of the LITESCAPE.PT project: a case study documenting the evolving literary geography of Lisbon and a case study exploring the representation of wolves in Portuguese literature.
KW - Portuguese literature
KW - Interdisciplinary research
KW - Collaborative work
KW - Databases
KW - GIS
UR - http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/ijhac.2015.0138
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061969205&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://app.webofknowledge.com/author/#/record/5362728?lang=pt_BR&SID=C3kDq7Peg8t5vgAdiQJ
U2 - 10.3366/ijhac.2015.0138
DO - 10.3366/ijhac.2015.0138
M3 - Article
SN - 1755-1706
VL - 9
SP - 57
EP - 73
JO - International Journal Of Humanities And Arts Computing
JF - International Journal Of Humanities And Arts Computing
IS - 1
ER -