Comparative practices in the creation, perpetuation and transformation of "national literature". The Case of German-speaking Switzerland. (E06#)

每当人们谈到“民族文学”时，人们就会拿它们作比较。这些作品通常是将歌德和莎士比亚并列在一起，将不同国家的文学风俗或流派进行比较和对比。与此同时，往往构建了深刻而含蓄的概念，例如关于“民族性”及其差异的概念。但是，国家文学是如何通过演员的具体、集群实践而出现的？它们意味着什么？有哪些替代概念？我们的项目通过研究瑞士德语文学1850-1950年的案例来探索这些问题，瑞士德语文学在自治、多种语言和文学传统之间存在着紧张关系。使用来自新闻业、文学研究和文化领域的不同文本的数字语料库，我们将文本挖掘应用到比较实践中，呈现出可见的“做民族文学”的模式。

Whenever one talks about 'national literature', comparisons are made. These often take the form of juxtaposing "Goethe vs. Shakespeare", of likening and contrasting literary customs or genres by country. At the same time, often profound and implicit ideas are constructed, for example about 'national characters' and their differences. But how do national literatures emerge through concrete, clustered practices of actors? What do they entail and what are alternative concepts? Our project explores these questions by examining the case of Swiss German literature 1850-1950, with its tension between autonomy, multilingualism, and literary traditions. Using a digital corpus of diverse texts from journalism, literary studies, and the cultural field, we apply text mining to comparative practices, rendering visible patterns of 'doing national literature'.