Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

This study focuses on the issue of literary cartography, especially its current manifestations in the environment of digital tools (digital literary cartography). Specifically, I consider several current research projects in which I primarily reflect not only on their methodologies for mapping artistic literature, the technological approaches to dealing with such mapping, but above all on the potential that these approaches and projects have for literary scholarship. At the same time, I present my own research (project), which focuses on mapping Prague’s fictional topography in 19th century Czech prose. The ultimate goal of this project is to compile just such a literary cartographic database as an important part of the literary corpus of 19th century Czech texts. In this section of the paper I describe the structure of the corpus, its tools, and in particular demonstrate, through a small example, the possibilities of combining literary cartographic models with quantitative models resulting from corpus analysis.