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LP-22: Spatial Analysis for Literature, Fiction and Travel Writing
Time:
Thursday, 17/July/2025:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Session Chair: Ulrike Henny-Krahmer , Universität Rostock
Location: Aud B3 (TB) Zoom link to be included 152 places
Presentations
Urban spatial narratives of Guangzhou in Zhu Zhi Ci (Bamboo Branch Poetry):a Phonotextual Perspective and Literature Cartographical Approach
Yinglin Wang , Xiaochuan Pan, Jingqing Lv, Jie He
Harbin Institude Of Tecnology (shenzhen), China, People's Republic of
This study utilizes phonotextual and cartographical perspectives to analyze Guangzhou Bamboo Branch Poetry, exploring emotional expressions and cultural landscapes. By examining textual features and Cantonese phonetics, we reveal the interplay of history, landscape, and local customs, highlighting the genre's significance in documenting urban life and cultural evolution.
Scene Change Detection in 20th-Century US-American Romance Fiction
Svenja Simone Guhr 1,2 , Huijun Mao2 , Fengyi Lin2 , Alexander J. Sherman2 , Mark Algee-Hewitt2
1 Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 2 Literary Lab, Stanford University, USA
This study explores scene change detection in 20th-century US-American romance fiction using manual annotations and automated methods. Manually annotated novels build the training data for fine-tuning an English BERT USE model, yielding promising preliminary results for automated text segmentation in computational literary studies.
New approaches to understanding perceptions of distance and landscape in historical travel writing: The changing geographies of picturesque and wild in the English Lake District
Ian Gregory 1 , Ignatius Ezeani1 , Erum Haris2 , Joanna Taylor3
1 Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2 University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 3 University of Manchester, United Kingdom
This paper explores ways of representing the complex ways that landscapes can be described and how this changes over time drawing on the concepts of ‘picturesque’ and ‘wild’ in the English Lake District. It evaluates a range of approaches to landscape description and perceived nearness and how these changed over time.
