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Make it stand out Taylor Swift taking a selfie in front of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen https://www.pleonard.net/literary-studies daily 0.75 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1534726939642-RVVIDU97UQGG4EHQTP21/multiethnica.png Literary Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539099458412-1A9ZT789DQ3VI597USZG/slsf-prod.jpg Literary Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539102539754-SB0QPHO7GEGNIQPWFZHA/umass.jpg Literary Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539103439762-EI4MUZZZI1JKYXPFXPVS/poetics-prod.jpg Literary Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539103615146-RSE5NUI0V8SWSRREQ9SC/llm.jpg Literary Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539103642760-YN9XNL5AX9FODA7L8HJ0/llm.jpg Literary Studies - Abstract The experience of transnational migration often occasions an increased awareness of the coupling of language and identity, as migrants must represent themselves in unfamiliar tongues no less than unfamiliar spaces. Since the 1980s, a body of literature in Swedish has emerged that is focused on this struggle to understand and present the self in a new language. Increased attention to these kinds of ‘post-ethnic identity’ in Scandinavia at the turn of the millennium has focused critical energy on these literary figurations of language change. A central theme in the authorships of Swedish writers such as Theodore Kallifatides is the need to express one’s own identity in the context of a new language. This struggle takes the form of maintain internal cohesion – as well as the ability to express that coherence to others. Throughout many of these narratives, questions of power, discrimination and inequality lurk: reminders of the centrality of language in the public sphere, and the barriers to national belonging for those outside the bounds of linguistic normativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1534726838049-8R5JCH64ZP9F8109DCZO/multiethnica.png Literary Studies - Abstract Literary Denmark has spent the past two years searching within itself for a kind of literature common elsewhere in Europe but sadly lacking at home. “Poesi og prosa, der ser den danske virkelighed med nye øjne,” [Poetery and prose which sees Danish reality with new eyes] was the phrase that the Gyldendal publishing house and the Berlingske Tidende newspaper used to describe the goal of their competition Nye Stemmer, a “litteraturkonkurrence for alle med anden etnisk og kulturel baggrund” [literary competition for all those with a different ethnic and cultural background.] The resulting volume by the same name, published in early 2007, was an anthology of those writers who would, hopefully, represent the new, multiethnic Denmark. In this way, Gyldendal and Berlingske hoped that Danish literature would catch up with neigh- boring Sweden, where since 2001 authors such as Johannes Anyuru, Marjaneh Bakhtiari, Jonas Khemiri and Alejandro Leiva Wenger have formed the basis of an imagined ethnic lit- erature: a minority perspective within the nation-state but with roots beyond it, capable of depicting mainstream society through new eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539103411616-ZV63E163JJFBWTBQTVM3/poetics-prod.jpg Literary Studies - Abstract Given a small, well-understood corpus that is of interest to a Humanities scholar, we propose sub-corpus topic modeling (STM) as a tool for discovering meaningful passages in a larger collection of less well- understood texts. STM allows Humanities scholars to discover unknown passages from the vast sea of works that Moretti calls the ‘‘great unread’’ and to significantly increase the researcher’s ability to discuss aspects of influence and the development of intellectual movements across a broader swath of the literary landscape. In this article, we test three typical Humanities research problems: in the first, a researcher wants to find text passages that exhibit similarities to a collection of influential non literary texts from a single author (here, Darwin); in the second, a researcher wants to discover literary passages related to a well understood corpus of literary texts (here, emblematic texts from the Modern Breakthrough); and in the third, a researcher hopes to understand the influence that a particular domain (here, folklore) has had on the realm of literature over a series of decades. We explore these research challenges with three experiments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7a0a46f407b425438439ca/1539099483040-GSWP5TRK19XN1RT0PV7I/slsf-prod.jpg Literary Studies - Abstract The interrelationship between individual story repertoire and overall legend tradition, particularly in the context of performance, can now be more readily addressed as large collections of legends are made accessible in machine actionable form. An important, and open, question in the study of legend is whether tradition participants exhibit expressive consistencies in language within and across their individual story repertoires. These consistencies may be indicative of certain tradition-based phenomena, such as the crystallization of story elements into a specific linguistic form, or the use of formula as an integral part of the story itself. The recurrence of word sequences may reflect stylistic aspects of an individual’s storytelling (idiolect) or, on a broader scale, language use in a specific region (regiolect). The discovery of consistent word sequences across multiple stories also supports investigations into similarities between stories that are not topically related. Such discoveries might facilitate, in turn, comparative studies across repertoires of individual storytellers, classes of storytellers (e.g. gender), and regions, thus augmenting more standard comparisons of genre and topic. Finally, the investigation of repeated word sequences in a large folklore corpus may provide insight into the practices of folklore collectors, including how they created fair copy out of their at times chaotic field notes, and how they edited their collections for publication. https://www.pleonard.net/resume daily 0.75 2026-03-30