Unstructured Genres

Unstructured Genres

Construction of a corpus of German novellas

2018–2020

As part of the project a corpus of approximately 1,000 novellas from the period between 1790 and 1910 was compiled, representing the book market and media changes of the 19th century.

People

Julian Schröter (PI)

Student Assistants:

  • Theresa Valta

  • Johannes Leitgeb

  • Martin Ruhl

Funding

Forschungsfonds der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Würzburg

Publications / Outputs

  • Schröter Julian: Quantitative Gattungsgeschichte: Zur Modellierung der deutschsprachigen Novelle im 19. Jahrhundert. De Gruyter. [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112236697] (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112236697). Open Access.

  • Schröter, Julian, Johannes Leitgeb, and Theresa Valta (2023): “Ein digitales Korpus der Novellen und Journalprosa des 19. Jahrhunderts: Herausforderungen der Metadatenerschließung.” DARIAH-DE Working Papers 46. https://doi.org/10.47952/gro-publ-131.

  • Schröter, Julian: PyNovellaHistory: Python Code for the Project on the History of the German 19th- Century Novella.« https://github.com/julianschroeter/PyNovellaHistory (Software)

  • Schröter, Julian: 19CProseCorpus. https://github.com/julianschroeter/19CproseCorpus (Software)