Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Ginsberg, Warren

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198748786.001.0001

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“…While scholarship for The Canterbury Tales has engaged with both the stories and the storytellers (Kittredge, 1915;Lawton, 1985;Ginsberg, 2015), storyteller identity has received relatively less attention in the Decameron. Instead, literary research has tended to address themes and stories (Migiel, 2004(Migiel, , 2015Marcus, 1979).…”

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Tecnologica cosa: Modeling Storyteller Personalities in Boccaccio's Decameron

Cooper,

Antoniak,

De Sa

et al. 2021

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We explore Boccaccio's Decameron to see how digital humanities tools can be used for tasks that have limited data in a language no longer in contemporary use: medieval Italian. We focus our analysis on the question: Do the different storytellers in the text exhibit distinct personalities? To answer this question, we curate and release a dataset based on the authoritative edition of the text. We use supervised classification methods to predict storytellers based on the stories they tell, confirming the difficulty of the task, and demonstrate that topic modeling can extract thematic storyteller "profiles."

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