European Poetry: Distant Reading
2023–2025
Petr Plecháč
Robert Kolár
Silvie Cinková
Artjoms Šeļa
Albeit poetic traditions evolved differently across European languages, there is no doubt they have formed an interconnected network. Similar phenomena often occurred in different parts of Europe in close time proximity, be they certain themes, motifs or poetic forms. The project aims to model the most relevant aspects of such relations of 19th and early 20th century Czech poetry to "big" European literatures, as well as the mutual relations among these "big" literatures themselves by a machine-driven analysis of respective poetic corpora. The main areas of interest are threefold: (1) themes and motifs, (2) references to a real-world objects, and (3) formal versification features.
