Toward a Computational Archaeology of Fictional Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4270761 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Yi Tenen, Dennis Tenen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-147 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2018.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2800651656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
In this paper I propose to reconsider theories of diegetic space that rely on explicit framing (i.e., "two people walk into a room" or "in Spain"). Rather than looking for maps, I define space in terms of lexical categories denoting objects. The emphasis on objects leads to a method for literary archaeology, informed by cognitive theory and anthropology. If the universe is made of atoms, a fictional world is also made up of atomic relationships that form basic, stable configurations, or what I call narratological primes. I construct several such basic spatial buildings blocks here—diegetic density and clutter distance. Their application to a well-explored body of nineteenth-century novels challenges several long-standing historical intuitions related to the development of material culture in the nineteenth century
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Construct (python library) · Epistemology · Framing (construction) · Linguistics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Geographic Information Systems Studies · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |