About this project

The project Manhattan Transfer: Computational Analysis of John Dos Passos's Novel was developed by Alessandra Failla and Laura Travaglini for the course Digital Text in the Humanities as a part of the Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge degree at University of Bologna.

The project consists of three sections providing different computational approaches for the analysis of the novel.

The first section covers the TEI-based encoding of the full text of Manhattan Transfer. A panoramic of the selected TEI elements are provided, as well as motivations for their choice.

The second section deals with the text analysis with Voyant Tools. A presentation and interpretation of the results are provided.

The third section presents a network analysis of the novel performed by extracting characters' interactions and the related centrality measures with Python and providing a visualization of the network with Gephi.