I’ve been blogging for a few months now (see my archive — I realized I had enough posts to make it worthwhile), and as I finally decided it was time pay some attention to what my site looks like (this is still a work in progress, so there will be further changes in the coming […]
All posts tagged Digital Humanities
Blogging from BASEES (2)
Yesterday’s highlight was indeed the panel on visualizations of imprisonment, in which Judith Pallot and Sonia Gavrilova presented the Mapping the Gulag project, and Josephine von Zitzewitz talked about the new version of Memorial’s Virtual Gulag Museum. I’ve already written about the museum, and the new version (due to go live in the middle of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 29, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/29/blogging-from-basees-2/
Ephemerality and versionality
I know I said my next post would explore some aspects of the connections in Shalamov, and that will be coming up soon, but for now… At the inaugural UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Decoding Digital Humanities event, a wide-ranging discussion initiated by our reading of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 23, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/23/ephemerality-and-versionality/
Four short links: the Stalin era
1. Stalinka: Digital Archive of Staliniana. Lots of images (593 to be precise), including photos, posters, paintings, cartoons, and even a few pictures from the Blue Noses Group’s 2007 Naked Truth series (if you’ve never seen them, and aren’t easily offended, do take a look). Those works notwithstanding, I’m somewhat dubious about the concept of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 13, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/13/four-short-links-the-stalin-era/
Four short links: resources on pre-revolutionary Russia
1. Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909. Nice research archive of images and texts from the period, with lots of search options. Good for finding interesting and unexpected things, though occasionally difficult to find the images you’re actually looking for. A lot of the images are in black and white, which seems odd […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 6, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/06/four-short-links-resources-on-pre-revolutionary-russia/
Making and using concordances
I’ve been using digital concordances to analyse word frequency in literary texts for quite some time. While I was working on my PhD thesis, on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot in the late nineties, I regularly used the Petrozavodsk State University on-line Dostoevsky concordance, as mentioned in a previous post. The site was pretty new at the time, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 27, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/02/27/making-and-using-concordances/
Shalamov.ru
I’ve been meaning for a while to write something about this site, to which I’m a pretty frequent visitor. Shalamov.ru was launched in December 2008 and has grown amazingly quickly over the last year and a bit. It’s become one of the best resources on an individual writer that I’ve come across. It contains electronic […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 23, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/02/23/shalamov-ru/
Teaching Russian literature
One of the big dilemmas in teaching Russian literature at undergraduate level is the translation vs. original question. Clearly, most of us would like to see our students reading texts in the original, because there are always losses in translation, and because reading in the original helps develop language skills, but it presents various problems. […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 25, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/10/25/teaching-russian-literature/
Gulag Museums
Although my own work focuses on textual and genre analysis and of Russian narratives of imprisonment and exile, that field obviously doesn’t exist in a vacuum. From the point of view of understanding both the workings of the system and some of the experiences of those caught up in it, in addition to all the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 22, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/09/22/gulag-museums/