La poética dramática desde una perspectiva cuantitativa: la obra de Calderón de la Barca

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2021/05/24/la-poetica-dramatica-desde-una-perspectiva-cuantitativa-la-obra-de-calderon-de-la-barca/ OpenMethods introduction to: La poética dramática desde una perspectiva cuantitativa: la obra de Calderón de la Barca 2021-05-24 11:40:00 Introduction: In this paper, Ehrlicher et al. follow a quantitative approach to unveil possible structural parallelisms between 13 comedies and 10 autos sacramentales written by Calderón de la Barca. Comedies are analyzed within a comparative framework, setting them against Spanish comedia nueva and French comedie precepts. Authors employ tool DramaAnalysis and statistics for their examination, focusing on: word frequency per subgenre, average number of characters, their variation and discourse distribution, etc. Autos sacramentales are also evaluated through these indicators. Regarding comedies, Ehrlicher et al.’s results show that Calderón: a) plays with units of space and time depending on creative and dramatic needs, b) does not follow French comedie conventions of character intervention or linkage, but c) does abide by its concept of structural symmetry. As for autos sacramentales, their findings brought forth that these have a similar length and character variation to comedies. However, they also identified the next difference: Calderón uses character co-presence in them to reinforce the message conveyed. Considering all this, authors confirm that Calderón’s comedies disassociate from classical notions of theatre – both Aristotelian and French –ideals. With respect to autos sacramentales, they believe further evaluation would be needed to verify ideas put forward and identify other structural patterns. Sara Chamosa Rabadan http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/RHD/article/view/27716 Blog post Analysis Collocation Analysis Content Analysis Literature Network Analysis Relational Analysis Research Activities Research Objects Research Techniques Spanish Stilistic Analysis Structural Analysis Text Auto sacramental Comedy Drama analysis French Classical theater Spanish Golden Age

Introduction by Open Methods Volunteer  Editor (Sara Chamosa Rabadán): In this paper, Ehrlicher et al. follow a quantitative approach to unveil possible structural parallelisms between 13 comedies and 10 autos sacramentales written by Calderón de la Barca. Comedies are analyzed within a comparative framework, setting them against Spanish comedia nueva and French comedie precepts. Authors employ tool DramaAnalysis and statistics for their examination, focusing on: word frequency per subgenre, average number of characters, their variation and discourse distribution, etc. Autos sacramentales are also evaluated through these indicators. Regarding comedies, Ehrlicher et al.’s results show that Calderón: a) plays with units of space and time depending on creative and dramatic needs, b) does not follow French comedie conventions of character intervention or linkage, but c) does abide by its concept of structural symmetry. As for autos sacramentales, their findings brought forth that these have a similar length and character variation to comedies. However, they also identified the next difference: Calderón uses character co-presence in them to reinforce the message conveyed. Considering all this, authors confirm that Calderón’s comedies disassociate from classical notions of theatre – both Aristotelian and French –ideals . With respect to autos sacramentales, they believe further evaluation would be needed to verify ideas put forward and identify other structural patterns.

[…] la obra calderoniana aún no ha sido analizada con métodos propios de las Humanidades Digitales. Esto se debe especialmente al hecho de que todavía no existen ediciones digitales de los textos en un formato estándar, lo que constituiría la base para cualquier análisis cuantitativo. Con la finalidad de avanzar hacia la elaboración de un corpus digital y poder realizar las primeras indagaciones, en primer lugar, hemos convertido 50 dramas calderonianos, accesibles ya en formato HTML1, a formato TEI-XML y, en segundo lugar, hemos llevado a cabo su exploración mediante el paquete DramaAnalysis, herramienta desarrollada en el proyecto QuaDramA2 y ofrecida en el marco del entorno de análisis estadístico R (Reiter, 2020). Estos textos han sido publicados con acceso abierto bajo el título Calderón Drama Corpus, accesible a través del Drama Corpora Project (DraCor)3, por lo que pueden ser utilizados sin restricciones. Este corpus digital forma la base de nuestro análisis.

Original source: La poética dramática desde una perspectiva cuantitativa: la obra de Calderón de la Barca | Ehrlicher | Revista de Humanidades Digitales

Original date of publication : 12.2020

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