CoNSSA: Corpus of Novels of the Spanish Silver Age

Functions in TextGrid Repository

This corpus was already published through GitHub and Zenodo previously. As part of the activities of the consortium Text+ in the German National Research Data Infrastructure Germany (NFDI), a new version of the corpus is now also available in TextGrid Repository.

Description of the corpus

A full description of the corpus can be found in the chapters 3.1 and 3.2 of following publication:

• Calvo Tello, José. 2021. The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning. Digital Humanities Research 4. Bielefeld: transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5925-2.

Besides, an article written in Spanish about the main characteristics of the corpus is accesible online (Open Access):

• [Calvo Tello, José. 2021. ‘Corpus de novelas de la Edad de Plata, en XML-TEI’. Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica 30 (0): 83–107. https://doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol30.2021.29299(https://doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol30.2021.29299).

History of the corpus

The corpus was composed as a part of the PhD of José Calvo Tello at the University of Würzburg (Germany). It was part of the project Computational Literary Genre Stylistics (CLiGS), lead by Prof. Dr. Christof Schöch. The project was located at the Professorship of Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis.

The goal of the project was to analyze the Spanish novel and its subgenres (adventure, erotic, realistic novel, etc.) in the so-called Silver Age period (1880-1939).