theme-d-Prose 1848-1920
Contributors
Data curator (3):
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Technische Universität Darmstadt
Description
The literary text corpus "theme-d-Prose 1848-1920" is a specialized collection of 1,227 German-language literary prose texts (shortest: 2,048 words; longest: 100,909 words).
It is an extended subcorpus of "d-Prose 1870-1920" (Gius/Guhr/Adelmann 2021), which is the source of 804 of its text files, originally taken from the corpus KOLIMO (Herrmann and Lauer 2017), which in turn is based on the repositories Gutenberg-DE (Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Hille & Partner, and Reuters 2017), Deutsches Textarchiv (Geyken et al. 2011), and TextGrid (TextGrid Repository 2020).
An additional 423 texts were added from Gutenberg-DE (Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Hille & Partner, and Reuters 2017), the Deutsches Textarchiv (Geyken et al. 2011), and the Wikisource Collections (Wikimedia Stiftung 2023).
In terms of social and literary history, the selected publication period (1848-1920) covers a time of many political changes in the German-speaking area with a diverse literary production that can retrospectively be grouped into the following major literary movements and epochs: the end of pre-March and the Biedermeier, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Expressionism.
In addition to the nationality of the authors and the years of publication, the texts for "theme-d-Prose 1848-1920" were selected primarily on the basis of the 'non-fictional elements', such as geographical, political, or historical entities, present in their fiction, which were found to share a common spatial and temporal setting of their fictional worlds representing the German-speaking area of the 19th and early 20th centuries, making "theme-d-Prose 1848-1920" to be an extended and thematically specialized "d-Prose 1870-1920" subcorpus.
Each text was manually tagged with the markup XML element <title></title> from the TEI standards (TEI Consortium 2022, Burnard, Schöch, and Odebrecht 2021). In addition to that, the indications of volume (e.g. "Buch 1" or "Band 2") and chapter headings or chapter numbers were manually tagged with markup XML elements <section></section> for volumes and <chapter></chapter> for chapters.
The text corpus is available as a zipped folder of XML files and has been enriched with metadata in an additional CSV file.
The CSV file contains basic metadata about:
- the authors: name, pseudonyms, year of birth and death, gender, nationality, authority file identifier (GND ID, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek 2024)
- the corpus texts: title, number of words, date of first publication, genre (as far as this information is directly documented in the consulted repositories, i.e. in the metadata of d-Prose, or Wikipedia and the consulted literary encyclopedias and literary histories, such as Arnold (2020), Killy and Kühlmann (2008), Stein and Stein (2008), or Brenner (2011))
- the fiction of the texts: information about the time and place of the fiction, including keywords and quotes taken from the texts
| number of texts | sum in words | average | median | standard deviation |
| 1,227 | 34,534,384 | 28,145.38 | 16,971 | 27,036.46 |
| total number of authors | 346 | 100% |
| number of female authors | 89 | 25.7% |
| number of male authors | 257 | 74.3% |
| number of texts | percentage of the entire corpus | |
| by female authors | 315 | 25.7% |
| by male authors | 912 | 74.3% |
| decade | number of texts | number of words |
| 1848-1860 | 137 | 2,382,896 |
| 1861-1870 | 135 | 2,353,938 |
| 1871-1880 | 121 | 3,584,370 |
| 1881-1890 | 162 | 4,684,519 |
| 1891-1900 | 256 | 6,695,539 |
| 1901-1910 | 258 | 8,488,707 |
| 1911-1920 | 158 | 6,344,415 |
Clusters of Subcorpora:
| cluster name | subcorpora | number of texts | number of words | shortest text | longest texts |
| author gender |
female authors male authors |
316 912 |
9,938,452 24,595,932 |
2,500 2,048 |
100,909 100,180 |
| publication date |
1848-1870 1871-1900 1901-1920 |
272 540 416 |
4,736,834 14,964,428 14,833,122 |
2,201 2,316 2,048 |
99,954 100,780 100,909 |
| text length |
very short texts short texts medium texts long texts |
425 461 196 145 |
2,327,416 9,250,959 10,741,578 12,214,431 |
2,048 10,029 40,001 70,208 |
9,959 39,878 69,387 100,909 |
Files
theme-d-Prose_1848-1920_XML_files.zip
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Additional details
Related works
- Is derived from
- Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.4315208 (DOI)
Dates
- Submitted
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2024-05-16part of dissertation examination
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/SvenjaGuhr/Raise-your-Voice
- Programming language
- Python , Jupyter Notebook
References
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (ed.) (2020). Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0.
- Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (eds.) (2017). Deutsches Textarchiv. Grundlage für ein Referenzkorpus der neuhochdeutschen Sprache. Berlin. http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/ [03.12.2020].
- Brenner, Peter J. (2011). Neue deutsche Literaturgeschichte: vom "Ackermann" zu Günter Grass. 3rd ed. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (2024). Gemeinsame Normdatei: Explorer. https://explore.gnd.network/ [20.04.2024].
- Gius, Evelyn / Guhr, Svenja / Adelmann, Benedikt (2021). d-Prose 1870-1920 (2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4315208.
- Gius, Evelyn / Guhr, Svenja / Uglanova, Inna (2021). "d-Prose 1870–1920" a Collection of German Prose Texts from 1870 to 1920. Journal of Open Humanities Data [Data paper]. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.30.
- Guhr, Svenja (2024). Raise Your Voice - Character Sound in German Literary Prose, Doctoral Thesis, Technical University of Darmstadt.
- Herrmann, Berenike / Lauer, Gerhard (2017). KOLIMO. A corpus of Literary Modernism for comparative analysis [Data set]. https://kolimo.uni-goettingen.de/about [01.05.2020].
- Keil, Ernst / Kröner, Adolf / Scherl, August / Hugenberg, Alfred / Amann, Max / Stolle, Ferdinand / Ziel, Ernst / Hofmann, Friedrich (eds.) (1853–1944). Die Gartenlaube. Leipzig/Berlin: Keil-Verlag, Kröner-Verlag, Scherl-Verlag, Eher-Verlag. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_Gartenlaube [01.07.2021].
- Killy, Walther / Kühlmann, Wilhelm (eds.) (2008). Killy-Literaturlexikon. 2nd ed. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209334.
- Neuroth, Heike / Rapp, Andrea / Söring, Sibylle (eds.) (2015). TextGrid: Von der Community — für die Community. Eine Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung für die Geisteswissenschaften. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt. https://textgrid.de/digitale-bibliothek [01.07.2021].
- Reuters, Hella (eds.) (2017). Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Die weltweit größte kostenlose deutschsprachige Volltext-Literatursammlung. https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/ [03.12.2020].
- Stein, Peter / Stein, Hartmut (2008). Chronik der deutschen Literatur: Daten, Texte, Kontexte. Stuttgart: Kröner.
- Wikimedia Stiftung (2023). Wikisource. https://de.wikisource.org [01.07.2021].