Abstract
These guidelines were developed in our seminar “Digital Methods in Literary Studies”, which was aimed at M.A. students and advanced B.A. students. At the beginning of the seminar, students were introduced to the aims and challenges of digital annotating in general as well as to different narratological theories (including Genette, Ryan, Nelles, and Füredy). Due to its narratologically challenging nature, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was chosen as a text against which we could test our guidelines and which triggered their modification. In Frankenstein many changes (e.g. of narrator and narratee) occur at the beginning of chapters. Even though such changes can, of course, also be found in the middle of chapters, annotators should pay special attention to the beginning of chapters, because they often coincide with a change in narrator, narratee, or narrated world.
Highlights
Cite: Matthias Bauer and Miriam Lahrsow, “Annotation Guideline No 6: SANTA 6 Collaborative Annotation as a Teaching Tool Between Theory and Practice,” Journal of Cultural Analytics
These guidelines were developed in our seminar “Digital Methods in Literary Studies”, which was aimed at M.A. students and advanced B.A. students.[1]
One problem we debated in class was how to annotate in the first place: Should we only annotate the place in which the change occurs, e.g. the point between two different narrative levels, or should we annotate the whole passage belonging on one level? In the end, we decided to use a combined model, i.e. to allow both the use of paired brackets and the annotation of the point in-between two contrasting passages
Summary
[In the first sentence, the narrator is Walton, who is writing a letter to his sister. In the second sentence below, the narrator is the Creature, who is telling his story to Frankenstein, who, in turn, is telling it to Walton.]. So strange an accident has happened to us, that I cannot forbear recording it, it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come to your possession. It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original æra of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct
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