BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:www-dhss-phil-fau-eu//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cristian Ortega: Corpus creation and analysis: a mixed-methods approach to corporeality in poetry slam texts UID:277b-3efe-6d3b-3486@www.dhss.phil.fau.eu DESCRIPTION:The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies wo uld like to invite you to the following talk in our DH Colloquium: Cri stian Ortega: »Corpus creation and analysis: a mixed-methods approach to corporeality in poetry slam texts« Abstract This talk presents a quantitative approach to the study of fictional worlds through the len s of setting. Drawing on narratological theories of “\;worldbuild ing”\;—particularly David Herman’s notion of “lived experie nce in an environment” and Gerhard Hoffmann’s tripartite model of setting—I argue that setting grounds narrative in embodied\, spatial experience. Using a manually annotated dataset of 2\,800 sentences\, I trained a BERT-based multi-class classifier and applied it to over 1 7 million sentences from 4\,700 German-language fictional texts (1780 –1940)\, alongside smaller corpora of canonical literature and nonfi ction. My experiments examine setting across five dimensions: historic al change\, genre differences\, canonicity\, narrative time\, and fict ion vs. nonfiction. Results challenge common assumptions: the use of s etting does not decline over time\, and static visual description play s a comparatively minor role in constructing fictional worlds. This st udy argues that the vividness of fictional worlds stems not from what is seen\, but from what is done in space—emphasizing fiction’s cap acity to simulate the processual\, reciprocal relation between body an d environment. Further information and other upcoming talks in the Col loquium can be found here. DTSTART:20250514T160000Z DTEND:20250514T180000Z LOCATION:Room 3.17 (3. OG)\, Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 61\, 91052 Erlangen DTSTAMP:20260413T041449Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR