TY - JOUR
T1 - From Page to Screen
T2 - Exploring Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Through the Computational Lens of “Transpoemation”
AU - Ben Zid, Mounir Al Jilani
AU - Al Amri, Humoud Saleh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACADEMY PUBLICATION.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - —Literary critics value the process of “close reading” which involves focused word-by-word and line-by-line reading of a literary work to derive meaning from the entire corpus and establish the role of different aspects of text in this process. As this strategy may yield previously unnoticed connotations, it is rarely performed using computer software. Although this is a widely established view, in this paper, we posit that “distant reading” using an appropriate combination of automatic/computer-assisted analytical methods can still achieve this purpose. While we do not undermine the value of the traditional process, we demonstrate that a detailed visualization of the literary work in focus (in our case a poem by William Wordsworth) through digital tools like “transpoemation” could augment the literary analysis process.
AB - —Literary critics value the process of “close reading” which involves focused word-by-word and line-by-line reading of a literary work to derive meaning from the entire corpus and establish the role of different aspects of text in this process. As this strategy may yield previously unnoticed connotations, it is rarely performed using computer software. Although this is a widely established view, in this paper, we posit that “distant reading” using an appropriate combination of automatic/computer-assisted analytical methods can still achieve this purpose. While we do not undermine the value of the traditional process, we demonstrate that a detailed visualization of the literary work in focus (in our case a poem by William Wordsworth) through digital tools like “transpoemation” could augment the literary analysis process.
KW - Index Terms—literary criticism
KW - close reading
KW - distant reading
KW - transpoemation
KW - visualization
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U2 - 10.17507/tpls.1206.06
DO - 10.17507/tpls.1206.06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131831068
SN - 1799-2591
VL - 12
SP - 1068
EP - 1075
JO - Theory and Practice in Language Studies
JF - Theory and Practice in Language Studies
IS - 6
ER -