http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1668 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:25:38 GMT 2013-05-22T03:25:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4836 Title: The Accolades Project on Large Textual Corpora - Working Paper Authors: Mansfield, Charlie Abstract: Through my software development and computer programming in PHP and JavaScript I continue to develop analysis tools for use on huge corpora of text (typically 250 000 to 400 000 words). These corpora include longer literary texts and large files of written web content. By writing new search tools using the PHP scripting language this part of my on-going research will aim to automate the identification of instances of space and movement in the content. The applied aspect of the new software created will be the development of this web-tool for use in an advisory or consultancy capacity for specialists in textual analysis and for professionals concerned with the management of urban destinations in the tourism industry. It is particularly aimed at town planning officers and tourist managers who wish to develop tourism using their literary and built heritage. Description: The content of this Working Paper was first presented at the University of Edinburgh 19th - 22nd May 2010 thanks to a network research meeting financed by a grant from: The British Academy, UK and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France under their scheme: Grants for British-French Joint Projects Universities in this Project: Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sheffield, Nancy. Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4836 2010-05-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1983 Title: Modéliser l'espace dans les textes en moyen français : le développement d'un script informatisé pour faire le tamisage (SIFT) Authors: Mansfield, Charlie Abstract: Cet article rend compte des résultats de nos recherches sur les projets consacrés aux textes en moyen français dans les cadres des deux projets auxquels nous sommes associés pour la période 2005-2008 : les projets ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) à Paris et AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) à Edimbourg. A notre connaissance, ce sont les deux seuls projets d’édition informatique en ligne dans le domaine de la littérature française pour la période 1350-1500. Notre objectif est d’offrir ici un aperçu aux autres chercheurs qui utilisent l’encodage de textes (le TEI, par exemple, The Text Encoding Initiative, Oxford University), et les langages de balisage – XML, XSLT, XHTML – dans le cadre de la linguistique ou des lettres. L’article présente un niveau de développement suffisamment avancé pour que les chercheurs entreprennent leurs propres expériences sans réinventer tout le code JavaScript, et rend également compte de procédés particuliers du DOM (Modèle des objets de Document) créés pour ces deux projets. Le but ultime du travail sur les textes de ces deux projets est de rendre des corpus accessibles en ligne pour les utilisateurs d’Internet et, en même temps, au moyen d’un navigateur (par exemple Mozilla Firefox version 1.5 et suivante), de leur laisser la possibilité de changer les couleurs et tailles de police sur leurs écrans (le ‘tamisage’). En somme il s’agit d’une ouverture de l’espace du texte. Le dessein informatique est d’ouvrir un espace numérique pour les chercheurs en littérature, en paléographie et en codicologie où ils puissent faire des découvertes eux-mêmes, découvertes que le créateur du système informatique pourrait ne pas avoir prévues, dans un vrai esprit de virtualité (voir : Charlie Mansfield (2000) : « What is the virtual ? ») Description: Developed from a paper first given in Rome under Projet ATHIS : Atelier 1, 23 - 25 mars 2006 De l’archive à l’open archive : l’historien et internet Ecole Française de Rome Olivier Collet, Charlie Mansfield, Darwin Smith 'Le texte théâtral en Moyen français'. Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris, CNRS-Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (UMR 8589), Projet ANR EELMA. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1983 2007-03-02T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1552 Title: Christine de Pizan: A Publisher's Progress Authors: Laidlaw, James Abstract: In recent years there has been a welcome revival of interest in Christine de Pizan, both as author and as 'publisher', to use a deliberate anachronism. Thanks to the work of a number of scholars, we now have a clearer understanding of the part played by Christine herself in planning and preparing the presentation copies of her works which were intended for patrons in France and abroad. The suggestion made by Charity Cannon Willard in 1965 that Christine might herself have copied the text of the Epistre a la reine Isabelle in Paris, Bibliothcque Nationale, f. fr. 580, has recently been re-examined by Gilbert Ouy and Christine M. Reno who, in an important article, show that three scribes, P, R, and X, were responsible for a large number of the manuscripts thought to have been prepared under Christine's supervision. They argue further that the scribe X is to be identified with Christine herself. Thu, 01 Jan 1987 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1552 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1464 Title: French Urban Space: 1. Arriving in the City Authors: Mansfield, Charlie Abstract: This research has developed from my teaching French-language literature in Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh since 2005 and as the start of my doctoral work in French at Newcastle University. The research work aims to discover the way contemporary urban literature works to create space. The particular focus is on the French-speaking metropolis of Montreal and on migrant writers or the representation of newly-arriving migrants by contemporary French-language authors in Canada. The approach starts with, and moves on from twentieth-century work in the field by Douglas Ivison (1998) and Jean-Xavier Ridon (2000) and continues with two themes I developed completing my M.LITT Dissertation (presented at the Society for French Studies Leeds Conference 2005), firstly that literary writing functions to reclaim the urban space for the writers and works to re-insert them into a well-documented city. Secondly, the writing seeks to incorporate the writers, by naming the newly-encountered objects and signs with a language and vocabulary that is more authentic to their own experience before they encountered the city. As a practising writer myself, it is an approach I have used in my own poems, for example, in the Europa cycle (Mansfield 2006), which explores my move from the English Peaks to teach in Lille and then Paris in the 1990s. Work in the field of French Studies on nineteenth century French literature has addressed the use of space. In particular Colette Wilson’s 2004 work on the Emile Zola novel, L’Assommoir and the book-length study by Kristin Ross (1988) on the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. My research draws on these primarily as a way of using the theoretical writing of Henri Lefebvre to approach literary texts and also to situate my research in the tradition of twentieth-century French critical study. Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:25:01 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1464 2006-11-27T15:25:01Z