Based on the “Ming-Qing Women’s Writings (MQWW), a digital archive and database” project and the “China Biographical Database (CBDB)” project, which have been collaborating since 2008, this paper uses dif...Based on the “Ming-Qing Women’s Writings (MQWW), a digital archive and database” project and the “China Biographical Database (CBDB)” project, which have been collaborating since 2008, this paper uses different digital methods to analyse the Ming-Qing women poets’ lives, such as the themes of their poems, their geographical distribution, and their social networks. The aim of this paper is to show researchers various prospects for the integration of digital humanities projects.展开更多
This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (1925) and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that S...This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (1925) and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that Samuel Johnson manages to redeem and restore the biographical subjects' (the poets') life, honor, and status in their different but similar biographies; that is, each biography is a redemptive text in its own way. In specific, the credible life story is re-presented with selected biographical materials, the poets' lives together with their achievements are reevaluated under Johnson's corrective observation, and Johnson's empathy with the poets reestablishes the reader's understanding of the poets' literary careers.展开更多
文摘Based on the “Ming-Qing Women’s Writings (MQWW), a digital archive and database” project and the “China Biographical Database (CBDB)” project, which have been collaborating since 2008, this paper uses different digital methods to analyse the Ming-Qing women poets’ lives, such as the themes of their poems, their geographical distribution, and their social networks. The aim of this paper is to show researchers various prospects for the integration of digital humanities projects.
文摘This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (1925) and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that Samuel Johnson manages to redeem and restore the biographical subjects' (the poets') life, honor, and status in their different but similar biographies; that is, each biography is a redemptive text in its own way. In specific, the credible life story is re-presented with selected biographical materials, the poets' lives together with their achievements are reevaluated under Johnson's corrective observation, and Johnson's empathy with the poets reestablishes the reader's understanding of the poets' literary careers.