Modernism: Keywords

Cuddy-Keane, Melba; Hammond, Adam; Peat, Alexandra

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“…While I agree with Kirsch that the examples Aiden and Michel provide leave much to be desired, the fact that they succeeded in the first type of validation—showing their tool works—inspired me to use it to pursue my own ends. When the Ngram Viewer was first introduced in 2010, I was at work on Modernism: Keywords with my co‐authors Melba Cuddy‐Keane and Alexandra Peat (Cuddy‐Keane, Hammond, & Peat, ). My first reaction on learning about the tool was one of mild dismay.…”

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The double bind of validation: distant reading and the digital humanities' “trough of disillusionment”

Hammond

2017

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The digital humanities (DH) is currently in the phase of the “hype cycle” known as the “trough of disillusionment.” Franco Moretti, perhaps the most prominent practitioner of the most prominent discipline of DH—“distant reading,” the computational analysis of large quantities of literary texts—recently expressed his exasperation with the state of DH, reflecting “our work could have been better” and asking why, “considering the amount of energy, talent, and tools, going into [DH], that we have such difficulty producing great results.” Surveying leading recent work in distant reading by Moretti, Matthew L. Jockers, Laura Mandell, Ryan Heuser, Long Le‐Khac, and Joanna Swafford, this paper provides a twofold explanation to the field's failure to produce “great results.” Both explanations relate to “validation,” the process by which quantitative results are shown to be reliable and trustworthy. Many distant reading projects have produced disappointing results because they have been more interested in validating their tools—showing that their computational methods are able to confirm existing stereotypes—than in pursuing genuine discoveries. Many others, meanwhile, produce provocative results that cannot be meaningfully validated. Although the double bind of validation is real, I propose collaboration and “interdisciplinary adaptation” as promising solutions.

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The double bind of validation: distant reading and the digital humanities' “trough of disillusionment”

Hammond

2017

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“…The approaches taken to the study of these keywords and the ways in which they are used are can then be highly diverse, while retaining a common object of study. This tradition of looking at keywords has been invigorated by much recent work (Bennett et al, 2013;Burgett and Hendler, 2007;Cuddy-Keane et al, 2014;Durant, 2008). A list worked on by Durant and other scholars provides some keywords related to the economy that can serve as a source of empirically grounded, if not objectively sampled, foci on which diverse learnings about how the economy, at least in English, can be gathered (http://keywords.pitt.edu/).…”

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Learning from interacting: language, economics and the entrepreneur

O'Rourke

2014

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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight by focusing on keywords in the language we use. The language of economics dominates discourse about the economy. Analyzing this discourse from a great variety of perspectives has blossomed but promises much more. The study of the keyword “entrepreneur” illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of this diversity of perspectives, and also points to some possible opportunities for enhancing the quality of their interaction. Design/methodology/approach – A broad discourse analytic approach is drawn upon to understand the role the language of mainstream economics plays in our discussions of the economy, to trace the keyword “entrepreneur” as it has been and is used in economics and more general conversations about the economy and to use a keyword approach to create a transdisciplinary understanding of the way the economy is discussed. Findings – Economics in the sense of the mainstream approach that adopts the rational narrowly self-interested, calculating and decontextualized individual as its default assumption is a very particular language that has detrimentally dominated discussions of the economy. “Entrepreneur” is a keyword, the use of which in economics has both strengthened and put constraints on the way it can be deployed in talking about the economy. Focusing on keywords in the language, we use can provide a method of gaining transdisciplinary insight. Research limitations/implications – A short article with such a broad sweep such as this no doubts illustrates the limits imposed by attempts at transdisciplinary communication, but a potential gain from any such interaction is that we might grow to have more informed and genuinely dialogic interactions about the economy. As another way to attempt communication across diverse positions, looking at keywords in the discourse about the economy seems profitable. Social implications – Discourses of economics and the entrepreneur play a huge role in how people construct their roles and representations in the economy. Producing critical and creative understandings of these discourses that allow social actors to benefit from the diversity of completed and potential research work seems imperative in a world facing our current economic and social problems. Originality/value – Discourse analysis of the economy, the entrepreneur and economics has produced many insights but these insights have remained stranded in intellectual niches. As studies of language and the economy continue to blossom this article stresses the need, and points to some opportunities, for more fruitful interaction, by adopting a keyword approach.

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“…She had forgotten her lines. 46 La musica che dovrebbe accompagnare gli atti è coperta dal frastuono di un macchinario probabilmente rotto, le voci del coro dei paesani, emblema della ripetizione e dei ricorsi storici anziché di cambiamento, 47 non vengono udite dal pubblico. Frammentazione e disgregazione fanno capolino sulla scena, rafforzate dall'immagine di apertura di un'Inghilterra debole, emaciata, lontana dai giorni d'oro dell'Impero britannico, incarnata nella figura minuta di Phyllis Jones, le cui battute mettono in evidenza la condizione di insularità del Regno Unito, apparentemente tagliato fuori dal continente sia a livello geografico che politico: 48 […] 'A child new born,' -Phyllis Jones continued, -Sprung from the sea / Whose billows blown by mighty storm / Cut off from France and Germany / This isle.…”

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«Amnesia in Fancy Dress»: il pageant in Between The Acts di Virginia Woolf e in Wigs on the Green di Nancy Mitford

Prina¹

2021

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Il saggio si pone come obiettivo l’analisi della rievocazione storica, il pageant, e del suo significato all’interno di due romanzi inglesi dell’interwar period: Between the Acts (1941) di Virginia Woolf e Wigs on the Green (1935) di Nancy Mitford. Il pageant ha rivestito un ruolo di primo piano nell’Inghilterra degli anni compresi fra le due guerre, assurgendo a simbolo della tradizione inglese e della Englishness,e trovando, inoltre, un forte riscontro nella letteratura di quel periodo. In Between the Acts, la rievocazione storica messa in scena da Miss La Trobe nel cuore della campagna inglese, sul prato di Pointz Hall, è il riflesso del caos ineluttabile che contraddistingue la condizione umana nel mondo moderno e del profondo senso di solitudine e di isolamento della società inglese sull’orlo della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Mitford utilizza invece il pageant come strumento per smascherare l’inconsistente ideologia nazionalista del fascismo inglese di quegli anni, considerata dalla scrittrice solo vuota retorica priva di uno scopo concreto, e rappresentata, in Wigs on the Green, dal personaggio di Eugenia Malmains, la più ricca ereditiera inglese – versione romanzesca della sorella della scrittrice, la fascista Unity Valkyrie – fervente sostenitrice di Captain Jack e delle Union Jackshirts, partito fascista immaginario basato sulla British Union of Fascists di Sir Oswald Mosley. Partendo da una breve introduzione del pageant e del ruolo che riveste nella letteratura inglese degli anni ’30, si passa poi alla sua contestualizzazione all’interno delle opere di queste due scrittrici, focalizzandosi, in particolare, sul significato che assume in relazione al quadro storico-politico, culturale e sociale.

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Modernism: Keywords

Cited by 8 publications

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The double bind of validation: distant reading and the digital humanities' “trough of disillusionment”

The double bind of validation: distant reading and the digital humanities' “trough of disillusionment”

Learning from interacting: language, economics and the entrepreneur

«Amnesia in Fancy Dress»: il pageant in Between The Acts di Virginia Woolf e in Wigs on the Green di Nancy Mitford

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