How To Construct E-Text Archives and How To Apply them to Cultural Studies

本项目的启动，有以下三个目的：(1)开发电子文本档案建设的硬件和软件知识；(2)构建文艺复兴和维多利亚时代的电子文本档案；(3)将这些档案应用于两个时代的文化研究。这些目标已在相当程度上实现。我们不仅通过购买和整合各种现成的档案，而且还通过各种方式增加了许多其他的电子文本，构建了文艺复兴和维多利亚时代的电子文本档案。这些档案是高度跨学科的，因为它们涵盖了文学、历史、哲学和其他文本。我们已经建立了一种电子文本的“阅读”技术，例如，通过编写一个程序来计算文学文本中某些特定单词出现的频率（参见山本的“tokei”）。我们还明确指出，电子文本存在于同一个电子文本档案中的方式，与构成当代文本批判理论基础的互文和跨学科概念有某种相似之处，或者让我们想起互文和跨学科的概念（参见谭次的《文本的电子化和当代文本阅读方式》）。基于这一假设，我们合作研究如何将我们的电子文本档案应用于伊丽莎白和维多利亚时代的文化研究。

This project started, having the following three aims : (1) To develop the knowledge of hardware and software concerning the construction of e-text archives, (2) To construct the e-text archives of the Renaissance and the Victorian Age, (3) To apply those archives to the cultural studies of the two ages.These aims have been achieved to a considerable degree. We have constructed not so small e-text archives of the Renaissance and the Victorian age not only by purchasing and combining various- kinds of ready-made archives but also by adding to them many other e-texts in various ways. These archives are highly interdisciplinary in the sense that they cover literary, historical, philosophical and other texts.We have established a "reading" technique of e-texts, for example, by making a program for calculating the frequency of some particular words appearing in literary texts (see Yamamoto's "tokei"). We also make it clear that the way e-texts exist in one and the same e-text archive has some similarity to, or reminds us of, the concepts of intertext and interdiscipline, which constitute the basis of the contemporary critical theory of the text (see Tanji's "The Electronization of Texts and the Contemporary Way of Reading Texts"). Based on that presupposition, we collaborate to study how to apply our e-text archives to Elizabethan' and Victorian cultural studies.