Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

Mapping Edgar Allan Poe’s Terror

The main purpose of this thesis is to provide a complete study of the effect of terror in Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the development of a detailed digital cartography of the author’s terror fiction.

To achieve this goal, five maps will be created and divided into at least three main interrelated categories: spaces, themes, and characters. The main goal is to discern patterns that link spaces, themes, and characters, effectively achieving the effect of terror. In order to provide a complete study of the effect of terror, the corpus will englobe the totality of the Poesque oeuvre.

This thesis aims to offer a new way of approaching Edgar Allan Poe’s terror and will have as its main research outputs an open source website to share the maps created throughout my research, as well as an annotated digital anthology of Poe’s terror stories, comparing their first and last editions side by side with annotations regarding the changes made my Poe as well as regarding the evolution of the effect of terror throughout the years that separate those editions.

Both website and anthology will be made available in an open source format and will be published, at least in a first moment, in English in order to achieve the largest number of people as possible. Furthermore, it aims to transcend the academic world and to start being used as a powerful tool in schools.

         

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

Mapping the African American Space in Toni Morrison

The purpose of this work is to use Digital Humanities not only as the methodology for it, but also as the mode chosen to display research outcomes.

The Digital Humanities will be used to map the characters’ journey, in Toni Morrison’s novels, through their spaces (African-American) and the spaces of others (usually white people), in order to find out what happens to them according to their movement or lack of it. This project also intends to show that the utopian space is white, while the heterotopic is black.

Thus, the Digital Humanities are going to be crucial to show it by means of making visual the intersections – between African-American and American, therefore white, spaces – that creates a third space (heterotopic and dystopic) for the African-American characters in the novels analysed.

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