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BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter Saur 2019

Intertextuality as Viral Phrases: Roses and Lilies

From the book Digital Classical Philology

  • Neil Coffee
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-011
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Abstract

This article addresses the phenomenon of “viral intertextuality,” or instances of distinct language that appear serially over multiple literary works. It demonstrates how current digital methods make instances of viral intertextuality much easier to detect. It argues for the value of reading such chains of similar phrases together. And it points toward possible improvements in digital detection and analysis methods that would further facilitate this kind of reading. The illustrative example is Vergil’s description of Lavinia’s blush at Aeneid 12.67-69, along with its predecessor and successor passages.

© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
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Digital Classical Philology
Digital Classical Philology

Chapters in this book (24)

Frontmatter
Editor’s Preface
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Open Data of Greek and Latin Sources
The Free First Thousand Years of Greek
The Digital Latin Library: Cataloging and Publishing Critical Editions of Latin Texts
Sustaining Linked Ancient World Data
Cataloging and Citing Greek and Latin Authors and Works
The Perseus Catalog: of FRBR, Finding Aids, Linked Data, and Open Greek and Latin
The CITE Architecture: a Conceptual and Practical Overview
The Canonical Text Services in Classics and Beyond
Data Entry, Collection, and Analysis for Classical Philology
Optical Character Recognition for Classical Philology
Character Encoding of Classical Languages
Building a Text Analysis Pipeline for Classical Languages
Intertextuality as Viral Phrases: Roses and Lilies
Critical Editing and Annotating Greek and Latin Sources
Digital Classical Philology and the Critical Apparatus
eComparatio – a Software Tool for Automatic Text Comparison
The Homer Multitext within the History of Access to Homeric Epic
Historical Fragmentary Texts in the Digital Age
Linguistic Annotation and Lexical Databases for Greek and Latin
The Dependency Treebanks for Ancient Greek and Latin
The Project of the Index Thomisticus Treebank
Semantic Analysis and Thematic Annotation
Notes on Contributors
Index
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