roomthily

timeincolours:

Understanding Shakespeare by Stephan Thiel

(…)an application of computational tools was explored in order to extract and visualize the information found within the text and to reveal its underlying narrative algorithm. The five approaches presented here are the first step towards a dicussion of this potentionally new form of reading in an attempt to regain interest in the literary and cultural heritage of Shakespeare’s works among a general audience.

The Iliad: Gods, Achaeans, and Troyans

GapVis: Visual Interface for Reading Ancient Texts

shriyashriyashriya:

This project, an online contextualizer and visualized version of the novel Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov, is beyond wonderful. I need to get the book and get into it to fully enjoy this website - but meanwhile, I am enjoying spending time browsing the colorful maps.

Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literature

image: each chapter is a column, each block is a paragraph. red represents a block of text with at least 25% new terms (lexical novelty); blue is 0-25% new terms.

via Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

courtenaybird:

Kerouac’s On the Road on iPad (or, Why Every Great Literary Work Doesn’t Need an App)

There are annotations, links, photos, interactive maps, original reviews, behind-the-scenes details, audio recordings, etc.

“But none of it really leaves me feeling like ‘A-ha, now I really appreciate Kerouac.’”

austinkleon:

Nabokov maps Ulysses

ragbag:

In 1969, Nabokov told an interviewer, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.” Nabokov drew just such a map as part of his lecture notes for Ulysses.

Filed under: #Bloomsday

a good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub (James Joyce, Ulysses)

above: a route through Dublin, using OpenStreetMap, that doesn’t pass a pub

via Maps on Kindle

Ulysses Map

via Strange Maps