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5 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

The Textual Analysis Example 1 series began by examining several different input sources and concluded with a psychological payoff for the effort invested. Along the way, I examined assembling the text, making notes and observations about particular stretches of text, and leveraging spatial and colo ...

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6 days ago by elisedb

“Yerushalayim shel Zahav” (Jerusalem of Gold) is a popular Israeli song, written by Naomi Shemer in 1967, the year of The Six-Day War in which the State of Israel captured the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai and East Jerusalem. Its title refers to an expression found frequently in the ...

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8 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

In the last post, I demonstrated reflowing text. In this post, I'll demonstrate not only reflowing text, but splitting up the verses in order to be able to encode semantic relations within Tinderbox. As a by-product of doing this, I discovered a poem within the first chapter of First John. (I'm real ...

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9 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

Having demonstrated Inductive Analysis on an individual verse, I proceeded to analyse each individual verse according to that pattern. But independent analysis of each verse gives little sense of the function that stretch of language within the text. To get a sense of how the verses relate to one an ...

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10 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

A Companion to Digital Humanities, sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, is an extremely useful resource, especially the chapter on Textual Analysis.

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10 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

Let's briefly change the pace. For quite a different style of textual analysis, Jezebel's Textual Analysis of Mark Sanford's Emails is topical, instructive and amusing. Thanks to @seekanewerworld, @Amanda_Bowman, @jenniferyee for alerting me via Twitter.

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10 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

Having imported each verse in the target text into a separate note, I then generated a Tinderbox map view. Tinderbox's map view displays each text with its book name, chapter and verse reference, which is why I was so particular about setting up the text correctly for import. A partial display of ve ...

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11 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

Given the obvious difficulty in working with the manuscript and published text-form, I count myself fortunate that the subject of my textual analysis is so readily available in purely digital form. The first step in assembling the text into analysable form within Tinderbox is to acquire the my copy ...

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12 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

I strongly agree with Audenaert's assertion that text and image form "two ends of a continuum rather than two poles of a dichotomy." Consider this range of possibility: a photograph an image of a painting a photograph containing readable text an image of a painting with some textual elements artwork ...

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13 days ago by Loryn Jenkins

In following posts, I will illustrate the practise of textual analysis through examining one particular instance of textual analysis, in order to demonstrate three things: The practise of textual analysis. The limitations and challenges of performing textual analysis using existing tools. The detail ...

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