HEИндивидуална стипендия2024–2025

DigEco · Digital Ecocriticism: Moving beyond anthropocentrism in the contemporary French novel

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2024-01-01 → 2025-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 211 755 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Съвременният френски роман се анализира чрез изкуствен интелект, за да се проследи как се описват биоразнообразието и ролята на животните и растенията. Това помага да се разбере как литературата влияе върху екологичното съзнание и разговорите за климата.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Digital Ecocriticism: Moving beyond anthropocentrism in the contemporary French novel

As environmental challenges intensify, literature plays a crucial role in shaping public awareness and ecological consciousness. The DigEco project explores how contemporary French and Francophone fiction ( 800 Novels between 2001–2021) reflects environmental themes, focusing on biodiversity, geographical space, and nonhuman agency. By integrating Digital Humanities and Ecocriticism, DigEco applies AI-driven text analysis to uncover how literature engages with environmental discourse. The project aligns with EU policy priorities, including the European Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, by examining how fiction contributes to climate awareness and sustainability narratives. DigEco’s objectives are: Tracking Biodiversity in Fiction – Identifying ecological terms and their evolution in literary texts. Mapping Geographical Representations – Analyzing shifts in the depiction of natural and urban spaces. Investigating Nonhuman Agency – Assessing how animals and plants are represented as narrative agents. By leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), DigEco provides new insights into literature’s evolving role in environmental discourse, benefiting researchers, educators, policymakers, and cultural institutions.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The DigEco project will construct, enrich, and analyze a corpus of 700 francophone novels (from 2000 to the present day) using tools and methods developed in the Digital Humanities. This innovative approach will provide new insights into the influence of ecological discourse on contemporary fiction. Although recent studies argue that the environmental question is changing the novel beyond the thematic focus on ecology, to date, no formal investigations have been conducted on such large corpora.DigEco will thus propose new critical perspectives on the capacity of literature to bring anthropocentrism into question. In order to achieve this objective, the project will be organized around three research axes: biodiversity, places, and nonhuman agency. These three elements are all bound to a shift in the traditional mimetic paradigm of the contemporary novel, diverting attention from a previously-dominant focus on human actions.For each of these research axes, I will enrich the digitized corpus using named-entity recognition technologies and semantic ontologies in order to encode a lexicon in biodiversity and identify toponymies and names of animals and plants. Then, using various computational approaches, I will leverage semantic, lexicometric, and stylometric approaches to answer research questions elaborated through an ecocritical methodology. Using sentiment analysis, I will also study the emotions that characters express about concepts, places, animals and plants.This project bridges two emerging fields in literary research Environmental Humanities and Digital Humanities and will constitute the first major study on the possibilities of dialogue between them. It will provide the largest set of data on biodiversity, toponyms and nonhuman agency in fiction in any language an unprecedented opportunity to question literatures relationship to anthropocentrism and to look at the contemporary novel through the prism of new tools and interrogations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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